Posted on 08/23/2014 8:25:42 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
A Colorado man plunged 100 feet while hiking but managed an improbable landing, using his gymnastics skills to help keep him alive.
Dylan Schuetz, 21, fell last week at St. Mary’s Glacier, a popular spot for hikers.
He tumbled head-first over the ledge, with death almost certain. But just as he has done at the gym countless times, Schuetz flipped mid-air to land on his feet. That move stunned his friend Cody Tengler.
“He spots his landing and then kind of does a flip, a front flip over himself,” Tengler recalled.
Schuetz broke both of his legs and ankles in the fall. He also punctured a lung. His frightened friends tried desperately to keep him conscious until help arrived.
“We just kept talking to him, do everything that you can to keep him alive and going, and just have hope,” Matthew Campbell, Schuetz’s friend, told ABC News.
Schuetz is recovering at Colorado Hospital, with another surgery scheduled for Friday.
His mother, Stacey Dale-Schuetz, says her son plans to never hike again.
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Kind of hard to ski at Sandia unless you can do it on dirt.
Sometimes there’s enough snow on the east side.
basically you try to curl up and tuck in and roll in the direction of the fall. momentum taken out by your rolling. when slow enough place arms and legs out wide and slap the ground on the final -hopefully - roll.
first few lessons of judo are learning how to fall safely.
People just don’t survive falls from a height like that! Hell; even half that!!! It’s my understanding that anything over two stories, and you’re breaking bones and or dead!
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Right. ...However, a North Texas teenage girl and her dad did a skydive last year (her first) and her chute didn’t open properly. She was in free fall for about 3500 feet. Broke lots of bones and required surgeries, but is doing fine now. ...Really a miracle that she survived. I would have hated being her father above her just watching her going down and unable to do anything to help.
How did she survive?
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