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| Sports bra saves stranded hiker (Read 384 times) |
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posted: 6/24/2008 at 11:36 AM |
Now this is using your head in a bad situation...
BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- An American hiker stranded in the Bavarian Alps for nearly three days was rescued after using her sports bra as a signal, police in southern Germany said Monday.
Berchtesgaden police officer Lorenz Rasp said that he helped lift 24-year-old Jessica Bruinsma of Colorado to safety by helicopter on Thursday after she attracted the attention of lumberjacks by attaching her sports bra to a cable used to move timber down the mountain.
"She's a very smart girl, and she acted very resourcefully," said Rasp. "She kept her shirt and jacket for warmth, but thought the sports bra could work as a signal."
An Alpine rescue team, including five helicopters and 80 emergency workers, had been searching for Bruinsma since she went missing June 16 after losing her way in bad weather while hiking with a friend near the Austrian border.
She fell 16.4 feet to a rocky overhang, where she spent the next 70 hours on the narrow ledge, sustained by water that she found by breaking into a supply box on the ledge.
She badly bruised a leg and dislocated a shoulder in the fall, and the cliff was too isolated for her to climb free, Rasp said.
Rasp said the cable was only within reach because the timber transport system was out of service. When a repairman restored the line on Thursday, the cable car started moving up the mountain and Bruinsma's bra reached the worker at the base. He knew of the missing hiker and immediately called police.
Rasp said his team followed the cable line up the cliff side in a helicopter and found Bruinsma standing on the ledge, waving with her good arm. After circling once, they lowered a winch to Bruinsma and lifted her aboard.
"She did so well because she is in very good shape," Rasp said. "She has been training for a marathon -- her goal is to finish in 3 hours and 10 minutes."
Bruinsma told Rasp that she has scrapped plans to stay in Berchtesgaden to learn German and plans to return home to Colorado Springs with her parents. He said she still plans to run the marathon, if she recovers in time to keep training. |
Ed
Bib #10 at the Tuesday night Good Times 5K series in Lowell, MA (so sad it's over, mark your calendar for opening night on 4/2/09)
2008 goal: HTFU and BQ at BayState Marathon
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posted: 6/24/2008 at 11:43 AM |
| wow great story. She is one lucky girl. |
Sara
"Work it, make it, do it,
Makes us harder, better, faster, stronger!"
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posted: 6/24/2008 at 11:52 AM |
| Quote from Mrs Hub on 6/24/2008 at 11:43 AM: wow great story. She is one lucky girl.
She really is, fate (sorta) smiled upon her. She did suffer a nasty fall, but not only did she not fall off the narrow ledge she found a climbers supply box there. Then her luck gets even better with the cable running past the ledge. Hope she bought a lottery ticket when they got her off the mountain. |
Ed
Bib #10 at the Tuesday night Good Times 5K series in Lowell, MA (so sad it's over, mark your calendar for opening night on 4/2/09)
2008 goal: HTFU and BQ at BayState Marathon
Beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy. |
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posted: 6/24/2008 at 11:59 AM |
| Quote from BadDawg on 6/24/2008 at 11:36 AM: "She did so well because she is in very good shape," Rasp said. "She has been training for a marathon -- her goal is to finish in 3 hours and 10 minutes."
Whooeee...she is FAST!  What a cool story!  |
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• Run 1500 miles
• October 5 - 1st marathon - Milwaukee Lakefront - in my home state of WI
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posted: 6/24/2008 at 2:24 PM |
| Nice to keep abreast of stories like these. |
My Masters (>50) Race PR's:
5K - 20:17
10K - 42:36
HM - 1:31:22
Marathon - 3:20:48 |
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posted: 6/24/2008 at 2:25 PM |
| What a great story! |
~Michelle
Southeastern PA Group
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different. - Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes |
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posted: 6/24/2008 at 2:29 PM |
| This story sure sounds like it had a happy ending for everyone involved. |
20th Century: 800m: 2:04 |1600m: 4:37 |3200m: 10:06 |5k: 16:23 |10k: 35:38 |15k: 54:20 |25k: 1:35:59
21st Century: 5k: 19:42 |10k: 43:00
What are you doing? |
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posted: 6/24/2008 at 2:34 PM |
| Quote from Pron8r on 6/24/2008 at 2:24 PM: Nice to keep abreast of stories like these.
Yes, it's very uplifting. |
20th Century: 800m: 2:04 |1600m: 4:37 |3200m: 10:06 |5k: 16:23 |10k: 35:38 |15k: 54:20 |25k: 1:35:59
21st Century: 5k: 19:42 |10k: 43:00
What are you doing? |
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posted: 6/24/2008 at 2:34 PM
modified: 6/24/2008 at 2:36 PM |
Was this the flash sequence .-. . - - . -. ... .. . -- .. -.-. .... ..- -. -.. . .-. .... .- .-.. - . -. ... .. . . - .-- .- ... -... ..- ... --- --  or was it just ... --- ... ?
I should have read the entire article  . |
09-20 Tour Des Fleurs 10k (20k)
Focus on breaking 1000 miles for the year.
22:00-23:00 for 5K (maybe)
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posted: 6/24/2008 at 5:16 PM |
| I would support her ... |
| Don't let the fat fool you ..... |
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posted: 6/25/2008 at 1:41 AM |
| now if that was me, the workers wouldve thought somebody hung a hankerchief on the line and i wouldve died on that ledge..... |
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posted: 6/25/2008 at 4:47 AM |
| Quote from cewickbe on 6/25/2008 at 1:41 AM: now if that was me, the workers wouldve thought somebody hung a hankerchief parachute on the line and i wouldve died on that ledge.....
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"It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds" - Captain Hammer
2008 Goals New PR's in 5K 10K HM, M
Faster than a speeding toddler..... |
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