In November of 2024, 65 year-old Valdas Bieliauskas was on a rafting trip with a group of friends in the wilds of Tasmania when he did something we all have - he stumbled. But that trip landed him in an impossible situation. With his leg pinned between boulders in fast moving cold water, options were running out. A decision had to be made - a limb or his life.

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River Rescue Documentary

Franklin River Documentary

ABC News

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338: Your Leg or Your Life: Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park