"My Planet" collected seven incredible stories salvations that prove that you should never give up and give up. The fate of these people formed the basis of books and films about the rules of survival in the ocean, snow-capped mountains, jungles and caves.

75 rub. for a life

The name of Larisa Savitskaya was included in the Russian edition of the Guinness Book of Records as the only person, who survived after a fall from a height of 5200 m, and as a person who received the minimum amount of compensation for physical damage - 75 rubles.

The plane crash happened in August 1981. A 20-year-old student was returning with her husband to Blagoveshchensk from honeymoon trip and accidentally sat in the tail of the plane, although she had tickets in the middle of the cabin. At the time of the An-24 passenger collision with the Tu-16 military bomber, which occurred due to an error by the dispatchers, Larisa was sleeping. Waking up from a strong blow, she felt a burn, as the temperature dropped sharply to -30 ° C. When the fuselage broke, Savitskaya ended up on the floor in the aisle, but managed to get up, run to the chair and squeeze into it, before “her” fragment glided onto a birch grove.

After landing, she was unconscious for several hours. Waking up, she saw the body of her husband and, despite grief, broken ribs, arms, concussion and spinal injuries, began to fight for life. From the wreckage of the plane, she built herself a semblance of a hut to escape the rains, warmed herself with seat covers and covered herself with mosquito bags. Rescuers found her two days after the disaster.

How the survivor Larisa Savitskaya was given 75 rubles. (According to the standards of the State Insurance in the USSR, 300 rubles were supposed to be compensated for damages for those who died and 75 rubles for those who survived in plane crashes). The Soviet press reported the incident only in 1985 as a catastrophe during an aircraft test. Larisa herself claimed that at the time of the crash, she remembered the Italian film “Miracles Still Happen” about a heroine who survived in the same situation.

Nine days in the jungle

Peruvian schoolgirl Juliana Margaret Koepke is exactly the same girl about whom the film "Miracles Still Happen" was shot. At the age of 17, she happened to survive after a plane crash on domestic flight in Peru: the plane was struck by lightning, it fell from a height of 3 km, and Koepke was the only one who survived from 92 passengers.

For nine days, the girl, despite her injuries and concussion, made her way to people alone through a tropical forest. By a lucky chance, Juliana's father, to whom she flew with her mother for the Christmas holidays, taught her the skills of survival in the jungle.

She went on a hike through the forest after waiting four days for rescue at the crash site, taking some sweets with her. Along the way, she met animals and snakes, due to wounds and insects, Juliana hardly slept, larvae wound up in her abscess - she got rid of them only when she reached the fishing boat and doused the wound with gasoline. On the tenth day, the girl met the fishermen, who helped her. Juliana told her story in the book When I Fell From the Sky, and then the movie mentioned above was made based on it.

127 hours in the canyon

American climber Aron Ralston spent more than five days in a canyon in Utah: during a solo ascent, a large stone fell on him and crushed his right arm.

The 27-year-old athlete went on this trip alone, without warning anyone, and knew that he had nowhere to wait for salvation. On the fourth day he ran out of water and had to drink his own urine. On the fifth day, he began to prepare for the worst: he made a farewell video on camera and engraved his name and the date of his alleged death on the wall.

When there was nothing left to lose, Aron decided to make one last attempt to survive: cut off his hand to free himself. First he had to break it with his own weight, then he proceeded to the operation with a penknife. The painful amputation lasted an hour. Freed, Aron, despite bleeding, descended from the 18-meter wall and walked through the desert area for about 13 km before meeting people. About these events, which took place in 2003, director Danny Boyle made the film "127 hours" based on the book of the same name by Aron.

76 days on an inflatable raft

US yachtsman Stephen Callahan was going to take part in a single race across the Atlantic Ocean on the Napoleon Solo sailboat, but the unexpected happened - according to the athlete, the ship was rammed by a whale and the ship went to the bottom.

Callahan managed to save an inflatable raft and a bag with a survival kit from a sinking ship, for which he had to dive into a flooded cabin. In this bag was a book about survival in the ocean. A yachtsman has speared fish and eaten it raw, fought the waves, survived a shark attack. He saw nine ships pass by, but none noticed the small raft.

The raft made its way from the Cape Verde Peninsula (Senegal) to the island of Marie-Galante in the Caribbean Sea (Guadeloupe archipelago): when it was washed ashore, local fishermen found an emaciated traveler with salt water ulcers on his body.

In total, Callahan spent 76 days at sea and covered 3,300 km. The events described took place in 1982, you can read about them in the memoirs of the yachtsman "In the drift: Seventy-six days in captivity by the sea." Stephen Callahan was a consultant on the filming of Ang Lee's Life of Pi.

Three weeks in the Amazon jungle

Israeli Yossi Ginsberg went with three friends to look for an aboriginal tribe in the jungles of Bolivia. On the way, the company split in two due to a quarrel, Yossi stayed with his partner Kevin, they began to go down the river on a raft and stumbled upon the threshold: Ginsberg's friend immediately swam ashore, and he himself became involved in the flow of the waterfall and miraculously did not die.

Yossi spent the next three weeks surviving alone in the Amazon jungle. He had to eat raw bird eggs and fruits, fight off a jaguar - he managed to be scared away with the help of an insect spray, which Yosi guessed to set on fire, and at the end of the journey he almost drowned in a swamp. “The most difficult moment was when I realized that I was all alone,” Ginsberg later recalled. “At some point, I decided that I was ready for any suffering, but I would not stop.”

When the traveler was finally found by a local search party, he was covered in insect bites and sunburn, and a whole colony of termites settled on his body. Ginsberg wrote the book Alone in the Jungle about this unforgettable journey, which happened in 1981, the documentary film I Shouldn't Have Survived was made by the Discovery Channel, and the feature film The Jungle with Kevin Bacon in leading role(Scheduled for release in 2016).

41 days in the ocean

A young couple's journey from Tahiti to San Diego was disrupted by a sudden hurricane. 12-meter waves overturned the sailing ship in which 23-year-old American Tami Ashcraft and her Briton fiance Richard Sharp sailed. From the impact of the wave, the girl lost consciousness. When Tami woke up a day later, she saw that the boat was broken, and her friend's life belt was torn.

Tami built a temporary mast, bailed out the water from the cabin, and continued her journey, guided by the stars. Her voyage alone lasted 41 days, supplies of water, peanut butter and canned food were barely enough to keep from dying of exhaustion.

Among the survivors were two medical students, they made medical splints from the wreckage of the aircraft and treated the passengers as best they could. On the 11th day of the disaster, people learned from the radio that their search had been stopped: the white plane on the snowy peak had gone unnoticed.

When food supplies ran out, the difficult decision was made to eat the bodies of the dead, since it was impossible to get food in these places. Water was extracted from snow: it melted in the sun on metal plates. After some time, an avalanche descended from the mountains into the valley, eight more people died, and the rest were buried under the snow. Only after three days of snow captivity, people were saved by one of the team members - Nando Parrado, who broke the window into the cockpit, and everyone managed to climb inside.

After three months of living in the mountains, only 16 people survived. All of them were saved thanks to the courage of Nando Parrado and his friend Roberto Canness, who made a 12-day passage through the Andes without equipment, maps and warm clothes. After walking 60 km, they went out to the people. More information about the tragedy can be found on the official website of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, from the book of Nando Parrado's memoirs and its film adaptation called "Alive".

A person does not know what power he has until he finds himself in a situation in which he has no choice but to survive. The people that will be discussed today survived thanks to lightning-fast reaction, dedication, fortitude and faith in the best. These stories once again convince us that we need to enjoy life, not lose hope and believe in luck.

10 Robert Evans Was Hit Twice In One Day different kind transport, but survived
First homeless Robert Evans on a bicycle was hit by a car on a street in Boulder, Colorado. Ambulance took the victim and released him five hours later, immediately after that he was hit by a train with coal. And Robert was again in the same hospital. The homeless man escaped with only minor bruises.

9 Roy Sullivan Was Struck By Lightning Seven Times
Roy Sullivan was nicknamed "the lightning rod man" and was listed in the Guinness Book of Records because he survived seven lightning strikes. Since 1936 he worked as a caretaker in national park Shenandoah. In 1942, lightning struck Roy Sullivan in the leg while he was on the fire tower, and the nail on the thumb. In 1969, as a result of a lightning strike while driving on a mountain road, Roy lost his eyebrows and lost consciousness. In 1970, another lightning strike led to an injury to the left shoulder, while the arm was paralyzed. It happened on the lawn of his own house. In 1972, due to a lightning strike on the territory of the administrative building of the forestry, Sullivan's hair caught fire. After this incident, he always carried a container of water with him. On August 7, 1973, lightning struck Roy's head while he was driving in a car through the territory of the forest entrusted to him. From the blow, the hair caught fire again, the forester was thrown out of the car and his shoes were torn off his feet. On June 5, 1976, a sixth lightning strike on the campground resulted in a severe ankle injury. On June 25, 1977, lightning sent Roy Sullivan to a hospital bed with burns to his chest and abdomen. Roy just wanted to go fishing. At the age of 71, Sullivan committed suicide by shooting himself in the stomach - reportedly due to unrequited love.

8. Aaron Lee Ralston amputated his own arm to save himself.
In May 2003, during the assault on one of the slopes in Utah, Aaron's hand was crushed by a cobblestone. For 5 days the man tried to free his hand. All these 127 hours, he not only endured pain, but also tried to keep warm and not die from dehydration. When Aaron realized that the chances of his salvation were minimal, he took his blunt pocket knife and cut off his hand. Having somehow coped with traumatic shock and the risk of severe blood loss, he managed to walk many miles under the scorching sun. He wandered through the desert until he came across tourists from the Netherlands. They managed to call a rescue helicopter. In September 2004, his autobiographical book "127 hours. Between the hammer and the anvil" was published. In 2010, based on the materials of the book, the feature film "127 Hours" directed by Danny Boyle was shot.

7. Harrison Oken spent 60 hours underwater on a sunken tugboat and survived
The tug, on which Harrison worked as a cook, got into a storm at dawn, 30 kilometers from the coast of Nigeria. When the cook went down into the hold, the ship was covered by a wave. It quickly sank. No one else managed to escape, but he rushed around the cabins by touch and found what is called an air bag. Almost 3 days later, Harrison dived towards the rescuers when he saw the light of lanterns in the water. His rescue was successful.

6. Peter Skillberg lived in a car under snow for two months.
A resident of Sweden, Peter Skillberg, survived being in a 30-degree frost without food in a snow-covered car for two months. Two local residents on scooters raced along a forest road covered with a meter layer of snow near the city of Umeå. Suddenly, they found a car that looked like a giant snowdrift. They figured someone just left their old junk car in the woods. However, the decision was made to look inside, and Peter was found, who did not eat anything from December 19, 2011 to February 17, 2012. The man survived thanks to the car, which became almost an igloo and protected from severe frosts.

5. Matthew Allen lived in the bush for nine weeks.
Bush - vast expanses in Australia, overgrown with low trees and shrubs. Matthew Allen suffers from a mental disorder, in 2012 he ran away from home and lived for more than two months in the bush, it was at this time that there was a period of abnormal heat in Australia. He was found by several local residents who, during their campaign, met an emaciated teenager, completely disoriented, badly bitten by insects.

4. British climber managed to survive during snow avalanche on Mont Blanc
A British mountaineer was caught in an avalanche while descending Mont Blanc, from Mount Agui di Bionassi in the Aosta Valley in northern Italy. Swimming movements helped him stay on the surface of the snow and not drown until the 700-meter avalanche came to a complete stop.

3. A 4-month-old girl survived after spending 3 days under the rubble.
The earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011 claimed the lives of thousands of people. In the city of Ishinomaki, located in Miyagi Prefecture, a four-month-old girl was found under the rubble of one of the houses. The baby miraculously survived after spending three days without food or water among the wreckage. The girl, after being examined by doctors, was immediately given to her father, who no longer hoped to see her alive.

2. Reshma Begum spent 17 days under the rubble of a garment factory
On April 24, 2013, an eight-story garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed. Of the more than three thousand people who were in the building, more than a thousand died. The last survivor, 19-year-old Reshma, was found on May 10, 17 days after the tragedy. Rescuers found her when they heard knocking from under the rubble.

1. Matthew Croucher Saved a Soldier by Covering a Grenade
In 2008, a 24-year-old British Marine Matthew Krucher, as part of a group, during an operation in Afghanistan, touched a stretch and, in order to save his comrades, rushed to a grenade. The grenade explosion itself fell on the backpack, and Matthew just started bleeding from his nose. In the same year, the infantryman was awarded the British George Cross.

Many miraculously survived people are the strongest guys in spirit. They believe that nothing will be impossible in their case, and, believe me, they are right.

1. Man with half a head. This man is a living example of what can happen if you get behind the wheel in a state of intoxication or simply get stoned on some kind of "dope". 26-year-old Carlos Rodriguez, who was nicknamed "Half", miraculously survived after a car accident, while losing half of his skull. A terrible accident happened when Carlos was only 14 years old. Doctors managed to save the teenager. And the whole world knew about him just a few years ago, when Carlos was arrested by the Miami police for indulging prostitution. Soon he was released on medical grounds.
2. Internal decapitation. Shannon Malloy was admitted to the hospital after a terrible car collision. Her car door practically slammed shut on her neck. The most terrible thing was that the door tore every ligament and tendon that connects the brain with the spinal cord. All other organs remained intact. In fact, her head just dangled, hanging on the skin. After numerous complicated operations, the doctors managed to save the girl. Miraculously, Shannon managed to avoid paralysis. True, she still lost the ability to see with her left eye and has minor speech defects.
3. Iron lungs. Diane Odell's life depended on a ventilator for nearly 60 years. At the age of 3, the girl fell ill with polio and her spine was deformed. Nevertheless, Odell lived a rich and fulfilling life. She was able to graduate from university and write a book.
4. Steel bar in the head. Finneas Gage underwent an amazing neurosurgical operation back in 1840. The man worked as a demolition worker at one mine and, by the will of fate, did not calculate the burning time of the cord. A shell exploded near Finneas, and an iron bar lifted into the air went through Gage's head. Surgeons were miraculously able to pull out his fragments from the damaged brain. Six months later, the man returned to full life. Of course, a terrible injury made itself felt for the rest of his life in the form of frequent headaches.
5. Head in the particle accelerator. In 1978, Soviet scientist Anatoly Petrovich Bugorsky accidentally got hit by a working particle accelerator. However, he did not feel any pain. But such an unusual case nevertheless gave by-effect. A beam of charged protons raced through his brain at the speed of light, and the left side of Bugorsky's face was paralyzed forever.
6. Survived after an hour underwater. In the winter of 1986, two-year-old Michelle Funk played on a frozen creek near the house. But the thin ice could not bear her weight, and the girl fell into the water. She was found and taken out only an hour after the tragedy. Everyone thought she was already dead. But a miracle happened! After a heart massage, the girl came to life. Her brain was not affected.
7. Cut in half. In 2006, Truman Duncan decided to sit on the rails and daydreamed a lot. The train, which was rushing along the same rails, did not have time to slow down. As a result, the unfortunate man was cut in half. The surgeons had to reattach almost half of Duncan's body. The man lost his arm and leg on the right side, but the torso, after 23 operations, was saved.
8. Return of sensation to the amputated limb. Danish Dennis Aabo Sorensen lost his arm in 2003. And in 2014, using the latest technology, doctors created a system of electrodes connected to the nerve endings of Sorensen's shoulder. After that, Dennis was able to control the prosthesis as part of his body and feel objects in his fingers. A real miracle, thanks to the development of science.
9. Turned heart. In 2014, Italian surgeons were surprised by one of their patients who was admitted to the department after an accident. After examining the man, they discovered an incredible heart defect. It rotated 90 degrees to the right. This condition is called dextrocardia. Doctors were able to correct the position of the heart.

If you can say “born in a shirt” about anyone, it’s definitely about the heroes of our selection. Looking at what happened to them, one can really believe that miracles exist. Among these lucky ones, including survivors of an avalanche and a plane crash. Surprisingly, their rescue was caught on video. And this spectacle is worthy of attention if you have strong nerves.

Film crew survived an avalanche, Karakoram Range, Pakistan, 2018

52-year-old Spanish director Paco Roses and his team went to shoot the documentary "1000 Cups of Tea" in Pakistan. While climbing the mountain, an avalanche suddenly hit them. It was too late to run - in a matter of minutes they were already swallowed up by a blanket of snow, stones and ice. The group was lucky that there were boulders nearby, behind which they practically hid from death. But, in addition to the fact that the filmmakers survived, they also managed to shoot a stunning bewitching video, where the elements rush at them - a huge snow-white stream. Despite the frightening experience, the team is looking forward to continuing filming.

Pilot Brian Buses survived a plane crash in Canada, 2010.

36-year-old pilot Brian Buses was on a routine training flight while preparing for an air show in a CF-18 fighter. But his maneuvers suddenly ended in the fact that the plane began to lose altitude abruptly and flew nose down. Moments before the plane hit the ground, the pilot managed to eject. He landed not far from the fireball, which turned into an exploding aircraft. The man was rushed to the hospital, but he managed to survive.

The racer got out of the car that exploded on the track, USA, 2017

Daughter of drag racing star - sprint racing competitions - John Force could not help but follow in his footsteps. For Courtney Force alone, the race almost turned into a tragedy in front of thousands of spectators. At one of the competitions, the car of a 28-year-old athlete exploded at a speed of 530 km / h and crashed into a fence. But the girl not only survived, but she got out of the broken car herself. And the next day she took second place in the final competition.

Climber survives in the Himalayas after falling into a 25-metre-deep crevice, 2014

American professor and climber John All climbed Mount Khilung in Nepal and was at an altitude of 6 thousand meters above sea level. The man stumbled and fell into a crevice, dislocating his shoulder, breaking five ribs, a knee and an elbow. And John was saved thanks to Facebook. At some point, he discovered that there was a cellular network signal, and posted a call for help on the social network. In addition, the climber filmed what was happening to him on video.

The motorcyclists flew over the car and escaped with injuries. Ukraine, 2018

The accident occurred in the city of Vinogradov, Transcarpathian region. The two guys flew over a car that allegedly "didn't provide a driving advantage" when turning into a side street. The motorcyclist and his passenger flew upside down over the car. One of them rolled over several times in the air, both landing on the dusty roadside. And the guys are really very lucky. The victims did not even lose consciousness and escaped with minor injuries.

When a person is in mortal danger there is always the possibility that help will never come - or it will be too late. But often a person does not get help or does not wait for it just because he has given up. History knows some amazing cases when people survived primarily because they decided not to give up for anything.

Trapped in Ice: Aaron Ralston

A young American climber in 2003 decided to climb a route in the Rocky Mountains near Utah. Climbing up one of the boulders, the guy felt that he had moved. Before Aaron even blinked his eyes, he was almost under a stone, and his hand was flattened by a boulder against a rock so hard that Aaron could not pull it out, no matter how hard he tried. It was also clear that the arm was broken: Aaron felt pain.

Ralston spent one hundred and twenty-seven hours trying to free himself. First, he tried to loosen the boulder, then - to beat off pieces from him from the side of his hand. When it became clear that neither rock nor stone would succumb, and when help would come is a big question, Aaron realized that his only chance was to amputate his arm in order to return to the people.

Yes, this is terribly reckless, but an experienced climber did not tell anyone that he went to conquer this route. Now it only remained to regret it and look for how to saw off a healthy, muscular male arm. Aaron was doubly afraid - both to carry out the amputation and not to be able to carry it out physically. On the third day, he made up his mind. He ran out of water and food. Further, he would only weaken and could, in the end, just die in a stone trap.

He had to sharpen the knife properly - a very poor penknife - to cut through the soft tissues of the hand. But the bones did not give in to the knife, and, going crazy with pain, Aaron began to break them one by one, since the bones of the radius are rather thin. With difficulty bandaging the bleeding stump, the guy managed to go down twenty meters along the rock - to the bottom of the canyon, and walked twelve kilometers until he saw a tourist group.

Aaron survived and remained relatively healthy. According to him scary story filmed a thriller film "One Hundred and Twenty-seven Hours".

Chocolate - salvation for a woman

In 1938, the famous pilot Marina Raskova made a flight as part of a female crew, which was supposed to establish new record for a distance. Passed the flight over the taiga. At some point, the plane got lost in the clouds, and when it emerged from the clouds, it turned out that there was not enough fuel. Commander Valentina Grizodubova decided to make an emergency landing. But ... then the navigator's cabin would inevitably crash, and the navigator - Marina Raskova - would die.

The pilots did not want to save their lives at such a price, and Grizodubova gave Raskova the order to jump with a parachute. It was assumed that after landing, Marina would quickly go out to her friends, and together they would get to the people.

Something, however, went wrong. As a result, Raskova had to walk through the taiga for ten days, with a pistol and two bars of chocolate. She almost became the prey of a bear, almost drowned in a swamp, going crazy with hunger, tried to fry mushrooms - but started a forest fire (which also stopped the swamp). In any case, she believed that her friends had not abandoned her. Either they are waiting, or help has already been sent.

Marina continued on her way anyway, hoping to get out, if not to people, then to the river - as you know, along the course of the river you can usually go to some settlement or at least a hunting lodge. Her friends have long been found; they continued to look for her, although on the tenth day, few believed that Raskova was still alive. Finally, she heard the sound of planes, the shots of a rocket launcher. She went to the sounds as fast as she could - she was very staggering from hunger, fatigue and lack of sleep, besides, Marina lost one boot, she had to walk barefoot on deadwood, branches, roots.

At the sight of Raskova, the rescue pilots rushed to her - they wanted to carry her to the plane in their arms. But she refused and hobbled herself, leaning on a stick. Later, during the Great Patriotic War, Raskova was among the famous "Night Witches" and died in battle.

To die but not to eat human flesh

Sir Douglas Mawson is one of the legendary explorers of Antarctica. During the expedition, his detachment was divided into smaller detachments, three people each. Together with Mawson, Belgrave Ninnis and Xavier Merz were on the sleigh. While crossing the snow bridge, Ninnis with his sleigh and dogs fell through - the bridge could not stand it. Almost all the supplies failed with him.

For several hours, Mawson and Merz tried to figure out if their comrade could be saved. However, the abyss was too deep: its bottom was not visible through binoculars, and no one responded to the cries of men. They had to come to terms with the death of a friend. However, the question arose of how to return without food, human and dog, and almost without equipment. The explorers still had one more sledge and a few dogs, but these sledges were less loaded than Ninnis's. There were some biscuits, chocolate, raisins and pemmican left from the food. Very few. To all the troubles, it was necessary to find a new snow bridge to go back, and this took time.

All the way back, the men killed the weakened dogs in turn in order to feed the other dogs and eat themselves. Mertz became nauseous from cartilaginous dog meat, so that he ate almost only one liver and, as a result, poisoned himself with an excess of vitamin A. Before his death, Merz went crazy, and after his death, Mawson pondered for some time whether it would not be wiser to stop destroying dogs and feed all together by the late Merz. Finally, he decided that he would rather die like a civilized person or save himself on dog meat.

In fact, moving forward, he already understood that the time for the withdrawal of the ship that was waiting for their detachment had passed. The captain had no right to wait for the three of them. Yet Mawson did not give up. He allowed himself to hope, and he was right. Although he missed the ship - by four hours - a few people remained on the shore with supplies just in case they appeared with Mertz and Ninnis. They also decided not to give up and hope to the end.

In 1975, a group of tourists, accompanied by instructors, went along "route number thirty" in the Caucasus mountains. Everything went wrong along the way. A blizzard picked up and visibility dropped sharply. Some of the tourists could hardly walk in the snow, and the group was very stretched out. Attempts to gather the group together, waiting for the stragglers, further delayed the tourists on the route, and the blizzard cut them off from the next base.

The instructors were confused and decided to consult with the group, stay in place, go forward or return to the previous base. This became a fatal mistake. A simple discussion turned into a heated, long-drawn-out dispute, and the leaders in this dispute were clearly determined - recently demobilized guys, strong and very assertive. They just went into the woods to build a fire. Most of the tourists followed, and this again split the group.

In a blizzard, for many, this behavior is like death. An organized chain maintains integrity. The divided crowd disperses, not seeing each other, even more. In the mountains, this means not only the possibility of freezing or getting lost, but also falling into a crevice.

The instructors had to split up too. A young man by the name of Safonov remained to collect the group scattered along the slope, the girl Olya Kovaleva took the unscattered and led them to the nearest base. From there, she was going to send help to that part of the group that her partner would gather.

She was able to take "her" guys to the shepherd's hut and report what had happened, but the deed cost her her eyesight. In order not to stray from the road, she, who was walking in front, was forced to constantly open her eyes towards the sharp snow groats. The eyes were irreparably damaged.

Safonov, who fled, did not listen. They saw that healthy guys managed to build a fire, and hurried to him. Many fell, broke their legs, called for help. The guys near the fire ignored all the screams. They drank vodka and felt great.

The guys who listened to Safonov also made a fire - a little further away. The instructor ordered to keep the fire going, leaving for firewood, but when he returned with several girls he had found, he found that the men around the fire had not even moved. The saving fire went out, and the tourists just huddled together, trying to keep warm. When Safonov lit the fire again, the men pushed the weakened girls away to be near the fire.

Meanwhile, two shepherds came out of the hut. One of them almost immediately dragged two discovered girls into the hut and asked the tourist guys to help bring another one that fell into the beam. All as one refused, and the shepherd Ostritsov himself carried her chest-deep in the snow. He turned to tourists over and over again, telling them where to pick up the wounded comrades, but in the end no one began to collect them - although several guys pretended to go, but did not find the wounded in the snow.

Under one of the firs, a guy and a girl hid from the blizzard. The guy decided to go out for his backpack - there were matches in it, the girl stayed to wait for him. Alas, he got lost and fell into the abyss. He was found the last of the dead. And a lot of people died in that blizzard - twenty-one people out of fifty-three.

The girl was found last. She had no food, no matches, she was soaked through. As soon as the blizzard ended, she built a hut, but found that she could not keep warm in it. She carved a path for herself around the fir and ran along this path to keep warm. She ran for three days, not letting herself fall, fall asleep, give up. She believed that a Soviet citizen would definitely be looked for.

On the third day, the girl saw a rescue helicopter and climbed up the slope. The girl's name was Svetlana Vertikush, and she was the only one of those who remained in the forest on the route and survived. In addition to her, the rescuers collected only corpses.

As for the guys with vodka at the first fire, they had everything: matches, cards, warm clothes, medicines, bandages, food. In addition, they took away things from other weakened tourists. When the blizzard subsided, the guys had a quiet breakfast, robbed a few dying and dead, and went further along the route, not trying to find and save anyone. And there was still someone to save in the morning - many of those who fell into the beam did not die immediately, they did not immediately die and were frostbitten. At the trial, the marauders were acquitted. No one could believe that they had done so in cold blood, and the judges decided to consider that they were influenced by the extreme situation.

woman and ocean

In 1983, two lovers, Tami Ashcraft and Richard Sharp, volunteered to take a small yacht from Tahiti to San Diego. They were supposed to be done within a month. Both were experienced sailors. But in the middle of the journey, the small boat was covered by a terrible hurricane. Richard sent Tami under some pretext to the hold, and to the last at the helm he tried to keep the yacht keel down.

Alas, the storm was stronger than a man. The yacht was capsized. Richard was knocked out of his life jacket and drowned. Tami hit her head and lost consciousness for a while. When she woke up, she realized that she was sitting inside an overturned ship - all exits were only in the water, and that Richard was dead. The mast is broken. The engine is out of order. The radio was silent. Tami had only a sextant and some supplies - which would have been useless if she had not been able to capsize the yacht.

The girl dragged all the cargo to one side of the hold for a long time, hoping that the wave that had become unstable would turn the yacht over. Then she had to hastily redistribute the cargo back, because the yacht was about to capsize again. Then Tami built a flimsy and not very reliable mast and sail. On the sextant, trying to tack with the help of a makeshift sail, she stubbornly walked towards land.

To drink, the girl pulled up an awning and collected dew from it in the morning. She had no other source of fresh water. In order not to run out of food so quickly, she tried to fish. Tami swam, hoping that they were looking for her and she would see help before the shore. But they and Richard were declared dead ...

Forty days after the disaster, all the inhabitants of the Hawaiian port came running to see a strange boat approaching from the open ocean. It had a makeshift mast and sail, and a very thin girl in very shabby clothes stood at the helm. It was Tami, of course.

Not only did she survive, but she didn't quit her favorite sport either. She continued to sail. Happily married. And about those forty days she wrote a book - “Red Sky in the Morning”. Not to be famous. To beat depression.

Fortunately, these are not all cases of salvation. In July 2018, a team of boy soccer players got lost in caves in Thailand, and they were able to wait until rescuers found them nine days later. All thanks to the coach, who calmed the children and taught them how to meditate, and also tightly controlled food supplies. Oh, it's even more amazing.