
Science of Survival: Struck by Lightning
Outside Podcast
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The Black Canyon of the Gunnison
"You're climbing for your life. You've got to get off of this thing," he says. "I was humming the entire, you know, just, and then it discharged this bolt." A lightning strike hit the river 1600 feet below them. It's like, why didn't it take me out at that time? How do you make sense of that? Really close calls are all basically the same.
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