Trapped at 23,900 Feet: Doug Scott’s Descent With Two Broken Legs | E 266

Podcast: The Crux True Survival Stories · The Crux True Survival Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-09-28

Doug Scott broke both his legs 23,900 feet above sea level on one of the world's most technically demanding mountains. No rescue team was waiting. No helicopter stood by. For eight days, Scott and his climbing partner Chris Bonington faced a descent that should have killed them—navigating crevasses, rappelling with broken legs, surviving a five-day storm with no food and wet sleeping bags in the death zone. But the real question isn't how they survived the mountain. It's what each person on that team did at every moment when survival seemed impossible. This is the story of how humans respond wh...