Ice Cave SURVIVOR | I Shouldn't Be Alive | S01 E10 | Full Episodes | Thrill Zone
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2020
- US Air Force pilot Mike Couillard takes his ten-year-old son Matthew skiing in Turkey. Losing the trail in a freak snowstorm they wander blindly into the wilderness. Tired, cold and hungry, they find a cave to shelter for the night. Days pass with no sign of rescue, despite a massive search operation. Back home Mike's wife and other children wait, praying. Mike makes an agonizing decision to leave his son and seek help. Reaching some abandoned huts, he collapses. Two days later, he's discovered by passing woodcutters who he directs to the cave. They find Matthew, frostbitten but alive after his ten-day ordeal in the wilderness
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I'm impressed by the turkish rescue team, they continued the search even after american military had left. And also how the villagers organized everything and went straight to look for his son. Much respect for those guys! Kindness & Love, no matter where we're from 💫🌍❤️
Yes AGREED .... what beautiful & kind human ...... vvvvvvvvry touching real story
I couldn't agree more
they also saved son's legs from frostbiting
Why do you have to mention race ffs, people like u who cause racism, it shouldn’t matter
@@noncekilla8848 sorry english isn't my first language maybe it go lost in translation.
It brought me to tears when the men handed the son over to his father. Those Turkish people sure are wonderful.
The Turkish rescue team and commandos did an amazing job continuing the search even after the US guys gave up. That must have been hard for the two guys lost to find out that the US gave up before Turkey did. I'm amazed their feet were saved and totally stunned that they live in a snowy place after what they went through. The local loggers who found him were fantastic to spring into action so quickly. That restores your faith in humanity a bit really.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing
"Dad I'm real hungry"
"Remember that time you wanted cheese burgers?"
lol
Lol
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Bahaha that part killed me too
Can you believe what he said.
I dont get emotional at these, but today. When they walked in with his son wrapped in a rug I thought he had died, then he stuck his head out - "hiya dad" fantastic!!
@Mr. Browning I kinda wish they did this one thing in another episode where a group tries surviving and they heavily alluded to a person dying, and with the fact that the person never did an interview throughout the episode you assume that they died, but right at the end the person finally does the interview to basically say that they survived which genuinely surprised me. Kinda wish I knew which one it was though damn
@@jack_as_killer_ idk if this is the episode you were thinking about obviously, but I know that they do that in the “This woman went through hell to protect her family” episode about a woman, her boyfriend, and her two daughters lost in the desert
Mike: Hide from the search team in a cave for 7 days
Also Mike: Why haven't they found me?
Wait 8 days before going somewhere....
@@fitflik4784 aahh the typical keyboard experts who probably would have been dead in 72 hours in real life strike again!
I honestly was pissed off with the so called military man trained in survival letting his kid hide in a cave for days without getting out to look for help
@@timookello3822 if he hadnt gotten his son out of the snowstorm he would have been dead. it is people like you typing nonsense without any real life experience that are a shame. he did the only reasonable thing: get them both out of the snowstorm - wait for the storm to calm down and then go for help.
@@checkanr138 let's start with the man trained in survival tactics losing his bearing after making a very poor judgement of taking his kid on the mountain when the resort was about to close for the day. Does not strike me like someone very intelligent.
I kno I'm not in this situation but there is no way in hell I would have just stayed there in that spot for so many days. This story is completely bizarre.
I agree I would have left as soon as the whiteout passed which was on the 2nd day. You would also be at your strongest & fittest to leave.
I have to agree. It is strange - what were they doing for all that time too? Just sitting there ?
i think it's because the son was too weak to move
I was thinking the same thing..
He knew that his son cannot walk and be outside in that weather condition in more than 1 day. He also didn't know where to go, it was risky that he went further in the wrong way far from safety area. So, he decided to stay in the cave to last his son's life longer waiting for rescues. In another episode where a man who lost very far from rescues just because he didn't stay still and ran further and further from rescues team because he tried to find a way by himself. He totally lost because of that decision. But I agree in some case, we have to accept the risk to find a way.
All these stories have one thing in common: bad decisions
Exactly
Which is very human.
Not all are bad decisions otherwise gone?
But not the worst decision's or we would never hear the story.
And their all Europeans seeking adventure
39:19 What the hell? After seven days he just up and skis down the mountain like the Grinch decending to Who-ville from Mt Crumpit. If he was capable of that after all that time in the cold and without food, imagine what he would have had energy to do days earlier. You can never blindly apply the so-called rule of staying where you are when lost. Each situation is different. You have to make a calculated assessment of whether searchers will find you in time or whether they will even be looking in the right place. Sometimes you have to save yourself, and if you do you'd better take action while your body still has mobility. It was pure luck that those loggers came to the cabins. Days before, the father likely could have made it much further downhill and found an occupied settlement.
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You do realize it's a reenactment, right? By this time he'd gone 7 days without food. The way the actor moves in this clip is not necessarily how he moved in that situation.
Egzactly what was I thinking
Lol
I was shocked when he started skiing down. He could've carried his son on his back then. I know I know, I wasn't there, right? Better yet, is it appropriate to take a ten year old kid to an advanced course? I don't know, I've never skied. But I've heard stories.
I don't even know where to begin. I'm cringing the whole episode. How could a father just wait there to be rescued while he's with his dying child? Wasted so many days and stored energy and yet was trained for survival skills? You gotta be kidding me. Poor Matthew he went through that much at a young age. And as for the father, it may be an accident but you poorly handled the situation.
This episode is by far the worst I've seen. From the story of the father's poor survival skills (if you call it a skill), to the actors especially the mother's acting.
You can see on his face.not to mention his actions,that he is such a imcompenent guy,father.
100% agree.
What mother actor?
Well done to the Turkish team for helping .
Yes WELL DONE to them
I am an ex-army officer and have had survival training and have been in blizzards at altitudes of over 6500 meters. It surprises me what his man did and that too a colonel in the US Army. I have met highly professional officers of the US Army but this man does not even deserve to be a squad leader. The first rule of surviving in a blizzard is to hunker down for you know your position before the blizzard hits. The second rule is not to go off wondering as you will never know in which direction you are heading. The third rule is to try and find help as soon as the weather clears. The longer someone stays in a snow cave the weaker and colder he will get and his chances of surviving, begin to diminish with the added misery of frostbite. His son lost his toes just because his dad was a very foolish man. I feel sorry for the mental and physical trauma his son went through just because his dad was so stupid.
I agree with everything you said. Only I would not call the father stupid-I would say he was very slow and made a series of bad choices as you so aptly described.
Yes
So true, he could have carried his son down
he made bad choice I agree, but I question his fear level....fear makes you stuck. So perhaps that was the issue, plus not wanting to abandon his son, idk.
I absolutely agree. He is pitiful.
I know we weren't there and can't judge but honestly hiding from the search team repeatedly just seems like a really daft idea. The son is alive in spite of his dingbat dad not because of him lol
Dingbat dad...! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
But the cave gave them extra warmth. They would've died pretty quickly out in the open.
Irritated with the father that he did not keep his son's feet on his own stomach all the time instead of once an hour, as if he had anything else to do, and his limp weak passive accounting. Irritated me, only stayed through to end to see how son turned out. No thanks to his father that he didn't lose both feet.
Me too
It annoyed me that we only got his account as well. Tbh I’d rather hear his son’s worries and frustrations, even though he was a kid at that time, and what he thought they should do. Idk. This episode and the father’s decision was so bizarre
I can't think of a reason when the father saw the weather was getting worse as they were heading up, why did they leave the lift? Such a bad decision that brought his son and him into dire straits.
They should be taking large green pine branches and making a SOS symbol in the wide open rural area of the snow so the helicopters could see them why doesn't the father think of this?
Because he's skilled Man
The dad is an idiot. Despite his military background and survivor training, comes across as an all talk, no action type.
Maybe not many branches, who knows
Way too many bad decisions-for a guy trained in survival.I question his choices in this matter...
Training isn’t experience
Very true-more practical application needed in this case!@@garrett3055
@@garrett3055 no but should be based on experiences from others who went through it or at least similar events.
He simply lacked common sense and the will to get off of his backside and make an effort. That village was SO close to their cave. His voice, his (lack of) thinking, his ineptitude, so frustrating. This was an easy race to get help for the common person on the street, let alone a military person.
Let's leave the others and go all the way to the top where there's a blizzard and no visibility, that would be fun.
the fog appeared when they went up not before, so they did not know before. if you have been skiing a lot, you know that can easily happen. you can not see beyond the mountain if you are somewhere near the bottom. overall they "just" missed to follow the tracks in extreme fog, which can happen and nearly cost them their lives. but the comments here trying to put blame on them while trying to seek attention to how much more intelligent all these people here would have been - are just pathetic.
@@checkanr138 If the FATHER had been sking alot DON'T YOU THINK he SHOULD have known that when the bus was leaving THE FATHER SHOULD NOT have gone up to,the very top. So your comment about keyboard writers is NOT FAIR. You must admit The FATHER was DUMB.
@@checkanr138 absolutely right
@@checkanr138 the weather was getting worse as they approached the upper region, which should have been his cue to turn back. First comes the pleasure then the pain!
Laying in my nice warm bed watching this makes me feel sooooo much better.
Dan - Me too!
Me three and I'm even wrapped in my electric heated throw
Lol😹 you rogue, its fuckin cold as fuck here probably colder than where these morons are, no need of rescue here
I kinda find it like theropy!!!
M 2 cold cos aircon
Why do helicopters seem so damn useless in these rescues. They NEVER see the people they are searching for, yet a police helicopter chasing somebody they want to put in jail can chase them for miles using infrared. Wild 🤔
🤔 funding
They are waiting to finish shift and go for a drink.
😂😂😂
They are enjoying their ride
Because the ones where the helicopter sees them in first pass isn’t exactly exciting and don’t make the show… you’re smarter than this
Every time I watch one of these videos I thank God I’ve never been put in this kind of situation.
Agree
Same here. I would not even want to experience a single night in such cold, let alone 7! But if I`m ever in a similar situation at least I would have God to give me strength
I experienced something somewhat similar. Back when cell phones weren’t a thing. I went out snowmachining in jeans and running shoes with no gloves with a guy I liked. We ended up sinking the machine in slush. I lost my shoes,, he gave me his mitts on my feet as he was soaked to the waist as well. Thankfully it took only 5 hours for someone to pass by and save us. I seen my life flash before my eyes….
@@wouterkabouter102 when you don't have food or no water then God can't save your declining body if not found!
The dad didn't pay attention in survival class
I think no class can teach you what 'survival' really means in real life. Also, after watching a ton of this series, I've realized that 'survival' in a snowy mountain requires a set of skills completely different from survival in a jungle, desert, etc. It also depends on what tools you have or not, and especially how hard it is to obtain food, water and shelter. If it was tough for this military dude, I can only imagine how hard it would be for an average guy like me.
He could have tried to start a fire by rubbing sticks
They're alive when many would have died.
@@kitty9392 they almost died from a down hill ski run! Ridiculous
@@timsummers870 and any survival situation there's four things you need shelter fire water and food and that order if you have fire burn down every anything and everything that you can the smoke will attract somebody
I literally never understand why these people don't turn around and go back the way they came.
Word I do too! But I’ve thought about it for blizzard ones and there wouldn’t be any tracks, the snow was coming down covering up their tracks faster than they could follow them back so by the time they notice they’re lost they look back up the mountain and probably turn around like oh shit but don’t think to make sure to turn around exactly 180 degrees, and end up just walking up instead of up in the right direction in this case...
Also in jungle ones the same thing- I was thinking that in a jungle one and I realized the Amazon is so dense that they literally could not tell where they came from, imagine a forest you’ve been in and like 10x more foliage and sounds and stuff... they realistically should have been marking trees once they got off the trail but u never think it’ll be you getting lost
There’s no way! Have you ever been in a blizzard? You can’t even see if you fit in front of you.
omg duh why didnt mike this of this!!!
Between no tracks, zero visibility and everything looking the same it's impossible.
I've never experienced such conditions, but judging from having had to drive in a thick fog, I would imagine that what they called a "whiteout" would significantly reduce visibility and that being in a forest of sorts would be further disorienting.
I understand that your not supposed not move, but he even knew that they werent looking in his area. At that point, why not move towards said area. He waited so long
Exactly my thoughts
He waited cuz his son wouldn't be able to walk with him, and he couldn't bare to leave him, hence why the long wait to do what needed to be done
He broke that golden rule in the beginning. You could even argue that he should not have left the ski lift and taken that risk. The ski lift was their only literal lifeline.
@@Sophiedabombbaby yes, emotional based judgement drove them further into misery!
*wolf howled*
Kid:what was that?
Dad: just a small animal
LOL
You never know how youll react until youre in the situation but the way they put this together seemed like the dad did zero for a week then decided togo find himself a warm bed. Its by the grace of god the kid made it ❤️
I feel the exact same way..if you are a father..they better find you dead trying to crawl back to your son with blankets or SOMETHING..LYING THERE IN BED WHILE YOUR SON IS IN A CAVE IS NOT AN OPTION..you are exactly right .only bv of pure chance they got rescued...if nobody comes even another 2 days..boy is dead, dad literally ends up fine
@@alllstr30 if they didn’t stay in the cave, they would’ve likely succumbed to hypothermia before they’d be rescued. Especially Matthew since he was so young. The father didn’t want to leave his son for too long either. He wanted to be right by his side to protect him which is completely understandable. You try leaving a vulnerable loved one in a situation like that. It was an incredibly hard decision to leave him. By the time he got to the cabin, he was so weak he couldn’t even walk. If he tried crawling back up he would’ve died before he even came close. You try doing that shit. They shouldn’t have been lifting people up that mountain anyway considering there was a lot of families with kids who go there. It was just bad luck, and that father did everything he could.
@@Mishael2023 you are telling me opinions and trying to act like they are facts...I am telling you my opinion...not one thing you said could be proved right or wrong
@@alllstr30 true.. I was high when I wrote that 😂
@@Mishael2023 haha ; ) I respect you
What stopped the father break lots of branches of the trees and make huge "SOS" word on the snow. I am sure it would be good help for the helicopter pilots to see it from above.
Hell a bright fire would help too.
The mind boggles lol
Excellent point
If the forrest vegetation is dense, and on a steep part, I don't think there is a chance to make that sign. You would need an open field of snow.
something tells me you've never been in a snow storm before
This is the first time I feel frustrated with a survivor taking it easy for 7 days before doing the right thing. Too confident.
OMG if i was the kid i would be super pissed at my dad!!!! Your best plan was to wait around in a cave for 7 days......
Agree
You won't have time to be that as each depend on one another in extrem situations besides it doesn't help one shred!
I wonder why he did not spell "HELP" or "S.O.S." with the logs and timber there. In HUGE letters... M.A.S.H. style.
Yes, that makes sense. In another episode, a skier did just that and a pilot spotted the SOS sign on the ground. Unfortunately, the pilot crash-landed and almost killed himself. However, he made it and radioed for help in the next many days before they were all rescued. Maybe you've seen this episode.
The snow would of went over it
Expending an awful lot of energy with a huge probability a light snowfall covers them up an hour later
I thought of that too. Bit dimwitted
Baaaad training
That's why smokers survive more often. Gotta have that lighter 😜🤣
I quit smoking years ago, still carry my lighter everywhere lol
@@DiamondCake2🔥🔥🔥 anytime I go on a walk or out into the wild I make sure I have a lighter matches water and mre meals just in case.
They laugh at me on snowboarding trips I snowboard with a book bag
Mike's survival training kicks in !!!! Imagine that.This guy has survival training n he gets lost ?!? I guess he has to wait til his training kicks in, huh !!!
Can't understand why he didn't use his REDish Maroon Sweater T-SHIRT- to wave back at them or leave it on one of the trees. You can easily spot the Maroon REDish on snow. ( why hide in the cave when you hear the helicopter just run outside and stop taking your time lol ) The father was just too slow on everything.
Ok.
But his "survival training"
Things happened to fast... the weather was extremely bad... this father did what he could! He was frozen .... tired, hungery... slow? No!!!!
@@nicoleserenalauer3027uselessss? Yesssssss
He seemed to doubt himself and have 2nd thoughts too often. Had he climbed that hill days before, well, you do the math.
Your right the dad would have been at his strongest & fittest early on.
Why don't any of the helicopters in these rescues have thermal imaging equipment?
Maybe because they were not available at the time??
@@vortex162they were it was just ridiculously expensive
I agree
This father just talks a lot of survival strategies. But manages to get himself and his son lost Does nothing actually useful for a week. But still talks himself up with a straight face. I found this episode annoying.
i always have a knife and lighter in my pocket :) always , no matter where i go :D sometimes i forget them at security checks ahahhaha try to explain in beta male 2021 that you need a knife and lighter just in case....
Me too that why it got a thumb 👎from me.
@@casualstyle79netherlands55we’re not even allowed to carry knives in the UK, such a pussy country
So the father is in the army !!!! Great survival skill sir 👍🏼
Sad
I think he said he’s an air ferry
I kept wondering if he has survival training where is the fire 🔥,
Comment warriors are to much, everyone make mistakes ppl, this guys a great father he dont claim to be Indiana jones and its easy to judge wen ur not in the situation.
I agree. That's how life goes, and your can't possibly plan and prepare for every situation. They both came out alive and that's amazing!
Even I could thought of more things to get rescued faster.
Being prepared for emergency before hand is critical and the boy Scouts motto. Be prepared *
He had survival training ?
Except no backpack with a few emergency items ?
Food, water, Matches, Mirror, Magnifying Glass,
Rope, Thermal Blanket.
Beaken. 5 Glow lights.
Map of ski mountain.
First aid kit. I would bring a flash light too.
Be prepared *
Check the weather ahead .
Bring extra socks in a backpack. I have to have a sandwich every break.
Be Prepared - For Life With A Backpack.
Jack Knife, List of emergency necessities.
Extra Socks Too !
Common Sense Man.
You have Pen and Paper Except No First Aid Kit ?
My idea of a nice time is being in bed falling asleep to youtube videos and movies/tv shows on netflix.
That's also my idea of a good time haha
That’s a boring life
@@ryanmike7103 lmao well we are in a pandemic. So what do you suggest Ryan? Travel abroad? Run a marathon? Give me a break ffs. People are allowed to relax and chill out instead of being on the go 24/7
I do this all the time. Fair warning.. One time I woke up just before the cord to my ear buds strangled the last bit of life out of me. I probably shouldn't be alive, but my hatred of Joe Biden's voice, and the sound of him lying repeatedly while trying to feign sincerity during a campaign advertisement must have jolted me awake and got my heart beating again. I was then able to untangle myself and go back to sleep.
The military and US government sure did give on a military person. Even though, he some decision were not hundred percent. We all make mistakes.
Honestly I did not feel any emotion from the dad ever. I would feel like shit if I put my daughter in that situation. I didn’t feel like he did everything he could to get out of there with his son. Then he leaves his son and says oh well I can’t walk anymore so I have to leave my son in that cave. I hope he makes it.. ?? I would be crawling my ass to my son even if it killed me at least I tried. But I guess.. not the worst dad but not a great one either js
yeah I would keep walking even if it meant my feet falling off. I would feel too guilty just hanging out in a cabin lying in bed, drinking water while my loved one suffers in a cave. They were lucky that kid survived without his dad. In almost any other case no one would have been as lucky.
My dad too would do the same.. he'd never leave me alone in a cave ever.. he won't take me to a death trap in the first place
Totally agree. This guy is some sort of defective loser.
Yup, keyboard survivalist spotted
These Rescue helicopters Most of the time miss the stranded... They might aswell fly with a flag saying 🚁 SAVE YOUR SELF !
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Hahaha
LOL
not easy to spot someone in the woods in a snow covered mountain when you do not even know on which side of the mountain they are.
What kind of military man can't carry a 10 year old kid ? Regardless of his condition if he could ski he could carry the kid.
That just boggled my mind.
Chairforce man...ba dum-tis.
A psychologically ill mind that can't think right getting careless and selfish and shouldn't even have children.
Impossible to walk or carry anything when the snow is up to your knees
It's easy to play Monday night quarterback, but for the life of me I can't figure out why he never attempted to use branches to mark their spot in the snow. Running out when you hear the helicopter and you're likely too late. Finding shelter was huge to their survival, but it's only the start. Then to wait as long as he did to take matters in his own hands kills me. I thought for sure the amputations would have been worse than they were, got very lucky.
It’s always funny to me when someone’s missing and the wife or whoever asks “where are they” as if the resort will say “they went off the side of the summit. We know they’re down there but yolo”
I been watching these shows for years & the best thing about them are the friggin comments! 😂🤣😂🤣😂
I’ve never even considered the comments!
My favourite part! There at least 20 minutes of silence between episode coz I stop and read all the comments
Turkish people are just amazing! They are kind hearted and lovely humans.
So I've been in super deep heavy snow on a mountain before, and just walking on level ground even without snow shoes is incredibly difficult. After it gets waist deep, you're pretty much just belly crawling and getting soaking wet from the snow and sweat from exertion. The snow can drift and make a 15 foot drop-off look like a gentile slope. If you combine that with poor visibility, gusting winds, and exstream exhaustion its very easy to see why they couldn't do anything untill the blizzard stopped a few days later. His biggest mistake in my opinion was not having a cigarette lighter or anything useful with them. Whenever I go out hiking, or camping, or skiing, etc, even my kids have a lighter a pocket knife, and a couple other useful little things that would have helped these two tremendously in this situation. Pine bows/needles placed over a hot fire make an incredible amount of smoke and the pine pitch is really flammable. You can see it for miles away on a clear day. Even in the winter when everything is wet, you can get a fire going if you take your time to prepare the materials before hand with a bic lighter. A flint and steel won't likely do the job in thoes conditions, but a good lighter will usually if you're determined. Sad that the kid lost a couple toes, but its still impressive that they managed to survive out there for 10 days.
exactly. people here obviously do not know how hard it is to walk in deep snow, especially inside your ski boots, which are not exactly perfect to walk in anyways, compared to snowboard boots for example. he had to wait for the snow storm to calm down and did the best he could in the situation they were in. the main mistake was to lose the track in the snow storm. this serves as a reminder to anyone skiing or snowboarding to be extra careful in situations like this, where visibility is low.
Having" a lighter " is dumb.carry at least a few. same for picket knives.also a couple of pocket mirrors.each person should have these things as well as a whistle or two around your neck.having one of anything is simply not good enough.wear several hats.carry extra gloves and wear multiple scarves and sweaters
I think we would all agree to wait until after the blizzard end. But you can only wait on the rescue team for a few days before it's time to get going with plan b. He was there for 7 or 8 days and then he just gently skied down to a village. Should have done that sooner
Most nerve wrenching video i have yet to watch, could hardly see the end for crying. That brave precious child so thankful he made a full recovery.
I have never cried so hard during any of these videos....when his son was brought back to him 😭😭😭😭
They were one hillside away from where they should have been, and he keeps walking for miles? To where? Why? By basic logic, that can only take them farther away
When he shouts at his son at 24:10,"matt snap outa it",it sounds terrifying,almost robotic,I was like wtf just happened their
Says he had survival training but decided to walk for 7 hours and not stay put?
He had 'survival training' from a classroom, perhaps coupled with some camping. But we know that whatever "survival training" he was given, the air force likely loaded him with equipment, food, and he was probably never alone either. I bet you and I have 'survival training' we learned on RUclips as well. But that's completely different from reality. This is not the first episode I've seen of a military or former military person who simply could not put into practice their 'survival training'.
No training skills.even me not military would came out there.with fire and sekf made gear snow boat
@@christineschmidt8400 ofc you would karen, ofc you would ;-) self made snow boats huh?!
Im fairly experienced in back country adventures and this dude is absolutely brutal at surviving.
That kid is actually an amazing actor!
…truly
Apparently, the cave is available on Airbnb.
They walked 5 hours in the first day, Im sure in day 2 they couldve just walked back after going on top of the ridge
its a good story..Big LOL
That would be true if their clothes weren't wet
But that would be called common sense ...
Dor Bue common sense? Soaking wet clothes? What direction do you think they came in? You know when it was freezing cold, snowing like crazy and horrible winds? I’d like to see if you could even start a fire or catch a fish. Post a video bud
His son was unable to walk after the first night.
Wow what a situation! Strong kid👏🏿
I think the kid died some time ago
Mark C shut up that’s why hanna is dead
papi chulo 😂😂😂
KIFER really? :o where did u get that information from :(
@@SarahLovestravellinghis ass
I have to say the father should have known better and being from the military he should have found a way out long before he finally gets out of.there I wouldn't have felt safe with or without him. Thankfully the Turkish loggers passed by otherwise they'd both have perished.
On a mountain there’s either one side or the other .. if you walk for hours and know you should of reached your point after one hour or less, why not turn around the opposite direction
That's not even for a mountain..that's for every way. Going back the same way one came is always the way out. Proceeding may or may NOT get you to safety. More often than not - when lost- going the opposite way from which you came gets you death or injury
Exactly! Should you move miles and miles?!? Better to calculate the distance you came in to the distance you have moved...
You can’t tell which way you came from in a blizzard and you can’t walk a straight line in the wilderness even if you could see.
Is it me or are the stories simply amazing and astonishing how good God’s grace is, and how these lucky people survived?
Yes, good grace to people's stupidities!
I worked in the ski industry for a number of years at a major Canadian ski resort in the Rocky Mountains. I get the "feeling" that Mike Couillard and his son were "skiing out of bounds" and this is how they got lost in the first place. Runs are very well marked, no matter how bad the weather conditions get, including "white outs". I don't think that we are the getting the "whole story" here. Snow fences are set up on ski runs to keep skiers within the boundaries of the slopes they are skiing on. There is something very fishy about Mike's account of how they really got lost in the first place.
Lana Muir I don’t think you can compare the resorts. This is a small, not well known resort in Turkey that may not have clear markers
Did you know Turkey and Canada are two different countries and may not do things the same? Don't make any assumptions just because your limited experience suggests one thing.
@@johnchedsey1306 yes very two different countries. That's for sure
I don't think this is real at all. The channel never says they are true stories. This could never happen in a ski resort with 2 govt.s looking for them. I call bullshit.
Don't be so sure. When I was 15 I got lost on my way from the lodge to the hill at night at a 2 hill ski hill in suburban Toronto. I panicked and even though the entire event was less than 40 minutes I learned how easy it was to get lost.
This man was absolutely useless from Sheffield England
SWFC
After watching all these episodes even if I'm going to the bathroom I'm taking a lighter with me
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Lol! This comment made me laugh out loud.
@@quiltware 😂😂😂
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These two French fried when they shouldve pizzad... and if you French fry when you should pizza, gonna have a bad time..
lol southpark references are always good
The comments crack me up....when people agree to this show they probably didn't think about a platform like RUclips where critiques could be written for the world to see....wonder if the survivors of these episodes ever read the comment section?
Im sure some of them do one even wrote a comment but I forgot which episode it was
😂😂👌🏽 I once got lost on Warzone in Dam. Couldn't find my way up. Luckily i had enough to survive. Gas mask, munitions box, stim, & car. Just about made it to my boyz.
It reminds me of those people who are like "if anyone where to touch my kids I would go mama bear on them" like bitch no you won't, in really severe situation you would fall back on the training you received so if you haven't received any you aren't gonna do shit lol
Some have and even written comments. In fact I just read one before I started this episode. The last episode I watched was where the 2 brothers Jeremy & Justin go hiking a canyon and they fall and are trapped. Well they made it out amd the 1 brother Justin ending up losing his leg. Any ways a month ago Justin's wife had commented on that video and said that her husbands brother died 4 years ago from alcoholism.
And another guy commented and said he ended up writing a book about what happened to him. I forget exactly what episode that one was. But I did take a screen shot of his comment so I can get his book lol
couldn't he have at least tried to gather some wood and dry it out to start a small fire?
try starting a fire while you are so cold your limbs already almost froze off. it is not easy. starting a fire requires really dry wood as well, so to start a fire inside this cave with wood and no tools is not easy.
@@checkanr138 could have asked the cameramen for some help
@checkanr138 my dad was Army, Airborne. They have survival training to male fires, shelter etc
That cave was a godsend. Without it they never could have survived.
Actually they probably would’ve survived quicker lol
@@flyingchimp12right if they made the climb they would have saw the village earlier
That child crying breaks my heart !
I'm sorry but being a parent means you move mountains for your kids if you need to and sadly it seemed like this father 's instincts couldn't even get him to move his own butt ! 👍🏼
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This made me cry. So glad for them!
I am *SO GLAD* they made it! This was such a harrowing experience just to listen to.
News is now reporting Mike got lost on his way to the dry cleaners 3 weeks ago and was located "surviving" under a interstate bridge. His car was nearby, out of gas. He had no idea where he was, so just hid under the bridge awaiting rescue. He was found badly dehydrated and malnourished, and had to have a tetanus shot, but is expected to make a full recovery. The Air Force is considering maybe he should not be a pilot any longer.
Hilarious?😅🤣🤣🤣🤣
Your comment has me laughing too tears thank you
Needed the comic relief somehow
Hahaa
Any new 'I shouldn't be alive' episodes being produced?
They're the best on RUclips I would say
show was canceled in 2001
No, the series finished years ago.
I will never understand how anyone can thumbs down these videos! Best show on the internet!!
Easy!!! Worst survival skills by the father.
I'm sorry but he goes skiing and takes a pen and paper with him but no matches or flares, and he has been trained in survival, yikes, don't ever want to be in a storm with him😨
right?? knife? nahh lighter? nahh pen & paper? duhh you never know we might get lost and i need to write a goodbye letter. what survival classes did he take to make sure i dont go to the same lol
Hi is not a smoker
only smokers take a lighter with them when skiing. you simply do not expect to wind up lost in a snow storm and having to hide in a cave.
He probably had a pen on him because you have to fill out paperwork to rent skis. Otherwise, he was going skiing for an afternoon. Usually that only requires skis and ski poles. People don’t bring survival gear with them when they’re skiing for an afternoon at a resort…
Leaving the kid in that cave, immediately reminded me of "The English Patient".
I don't understand this at all. Pilots must go thru SERE and other survival training including good decisions. This entire story is bewildering. A pilot with no compass and no sense of direction, no ability to follow basic sun and moon directions and nearly dying on a tiny mountain. It's only a 6000 ft. mountain, barely a mile high. That's puny, and you can get down on skis in probably 30 minutes. Just go down hill to safety. Big ski resorts are twice as tall. And why go up the lift in a storm? How can you get lost on a ski resort and go this deep into the wild and not find your way back?? I've been to 20+ ski resorts over a decade and it would be very difficult to get this lost, MILES into the wild. First, you'd try to *keep under the lift in a storm,* or at least somewhat visible. Granted in a white out you might lose the lift, but a Pilot should have *some* internal directional bearings (or even a compass), and on the incorrect route you'd notice within a hundred yards you are far off the correct path, and you'd just climb back the way you came. The terrain would be drastically different, the snow would be UNSKIED versus packed snow that has been skiied upon, etc. I'm not able to understand how you could get this lost on a ski resort?! Then hide in a cave for a week?? Just ski down to warmer populated areas. Keep skiing down. You will get to the bottom eventually. Why would you STAY at the top in the snow?? Ski down. Ski down. Ski down....
agree, honestly I question the dad's common sense....how did he expect his son and him to be found sitting in a cave hidden? He planted 2 ski poles together as X and expects it to be seen?! He needed to make a large X on ground with tree branches in a open area so that maybe someone would see it! and yes how does one get lost near a ski resort, I don't understand. Perhaps the area was more wild then depicted.
These are both incredibly ignorant comments and speak to your inexperience in the mountains and backcountry. When have you ever brought a compass to the ski resort when skiing with your family? Virtually no one would have a compass on them. Have you ever skied in flat light in whiteout conditions? I've been in terrain in conditions where people got vertigo because you can't tell which way is up or down, let alone which direction to go. We carry rope with us and fling it ahead to show the lay of the terrain, but I've been 1.5 m from a drop and not known it was there. It can absolutely be impossible to tell the direction in a storm. As they said, conditions can be drastically different from the bottom of a chair to the top and you absolutely never expect the worst when the weather has been great all day. A final top to bottom run? Totally reasonable. And your suggestion to ski down? Wrong again? I live in a resort town and people have gotten lost many times skiing down.. in the wrong direction. To creek beds that lead away from town. So there is signage and ropes and everything possible to keep people in bounds, but this was in Turkey and not recently by the looks of it. They wouldn't have those measures. Blowing snow can change the terrain incredibly fast, making untracked snow hard and 'packed', and ski runs full of drifts and not at all obviously ski runs. I'm not sure which resorts you've been, but it sounds like you've had great weather, likely in more recent years and ones that are less remote. Get your head out of your ass, as well as the commenter below, this could happen to anyone and it makes me furious to see people criticizing survival scenarios they know nothing about from the comfort of their well fed and hydrated state.
@@kristacook1211 thanks for the revelation! yes indeed perhaps we are ignorant for thinking the father made some bad choices. I guess we can't know until we are faced with such a situation ourselves.
In most these films, one stays put and the other goes for help which is usually the one succeeding. On a sunny day, skiing/walking around and leaving a long trail raises the chances to be found. Most searches are done during the day, but these days everyone's has a cell phone with a light, there are even APPs making the light flash like SOS, so a search during the night might be a great idea. And of course nowadays everyone on a ski slope can wear a GPS tracker in their pocket.
Dad : I'll be back before sundown.
Also dad : *stays in cabins for two days and doesn't go back*
If he went back they both would have died.
R.I.P. Matthew's toe. What an episode! These two were just built TOUGH
Poor choices for a military man. After 7 hours walking away from the 1st trail he know says stay put were you got lost? Wtf dude? Should've stayed as soon as you got lost.
Humanity at its finest, when different nations come to aid each other in times of crisis.
Nations coming together got nothing to do with it, it wouldn’t be good for the Turkish tourist industry if they didn’t help, I’m sure they don’t ask what nationality they are before they launch the rescue operation
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Your pushing your on narrative for the sake of instigating. Ans your interpreting my comment the way you want to.
Next time should I ask for your blessing before I make a comment .
With all that’s going on in the world these days , you don’t think it’s nice to see nations unite to help one another .
If your comment came first , I could have played your game, and said “ it had nothing to do with looking good for tourism , but rather mankind helping one another , in time of need , no matter what religion , nationality or political position.”
You see what I just did there ?
@@DHT2023 different nations have always help each other and come together, it’s nothing new. I guess it’s unusual for a Muslim country to help anyone else, they must really value there tourist industry.
I never cried so hard! They made it! Praise God!
Lol you can see they are alive because they are being interviewed 😂
Haven’t even seen it yet but I’m sure the dad did something stupid that lead to a sequence of events.. I think I now get why my mom would get nervous every time my dad took us kids out by himself.
Thats because your mom did not trust your dad..
yeah, men don't like asking for directions :)
Ahahaha... You are right!! Haha
Bjorn Schreff right? Like this is a thing for every dad.... no that’s just your parents lmaooo
Kelsey Chumney me and everyone who liked the comment and agreed with me. And if you watched the video I was clearly right the dad made dumb decisions throughout this entire video.
when they said 7th day i thought WHAT AND HES HAD SURVIVIAL SKILLS even i wouldnt stay there that long the very next day i would of been off where did this guy train!
I was going to tell "I Shouldn't Be Alive" my survival story, but I was too embarrassed. lol
Do it. We need new content!!
If I had been in one of these situations, I would be to embarrassed to tell anyone..
Yes, but survived a journey to the fridge isn't so good 🙃
One time, I led my son to climb up a small snow-covered hill near the river. I thought we could climb over the hill to the reach the major hiking trail. However, when we reached the top of the hill, there was no trail but it was a narrow long ridge. It was too steep to climb down back from the side where we moved up. It was also impossible to walk on the narrow ridge to reach the trail. I looked around and found the other side of the hill was only 5 or 6 meters down and there was a shortcut to the trail down there. We slides down to the the shortcut, moved carefully towards the trail. In order not to slide downhill, we grabbed stems on trees along the shortcut. We finally made it to the trail safely. It was minus 15.
I love watching these
I love Mike’s survival tips.A man that gets lost at a Ski Resort.
Fred West’s Patio-Laying Guide is next in the series.A shot of adrenaline took over….and Mike stood up.
Any experienced skier or snowboarder knows that if you see the weather is that bad and the snow and wind is heavy that you should not go down the slope period and immediately get back on the lift
Dads should be very careful about where they take their kids.
Parents should be very careful where they take their kids.
human race is stable ,,>>only 40 k lions left only 15 k leopards left ..theres the issue::
You look like a witch
@@BennieVredestein Id let her cast a spell on me. She looks like a pretty gypsy witch fortune teller.
Like this one. He didn't do much after all.
The family now lives happily in the desert 😂
If u get out of the lift and see harsh weather conditions, did it not occur to him, to just stay put and return with the lift instead of going down in the knowledge this was soon closed? Why do all those men believe they have survival skills, when they are not able to find the right direction, or make a fire. A lot of the men in this series are portraied as professional huntsmen, survival experts, sometimes I doubt this.
So I'm not crazy. Thanks for this comment. White media tends to do this. I found a story about the man the man that discovered the Amazon. And he was a bumbling moron. But that's the 1 good thing he did. Look at the movie about him and he looks like such a diff person a hero. And that's wrong. But it showed me a lot. And I've watched a lot of these shows and few were real survivalists. I have no skills and I know what that looks like. Lol. Not survival skills. I know slight things and with good luck would hope to survive. But if this happened to a navy seal or man like that it would be diff. The story about that ex army diver that got caught in the ocean. And left for days. Had he not been a frog man. He woulda died a man like me would have died that very day.
Your not able to go back down a ski lift once up so they had to ski
I think they believe they have survival skills because they survived lol
I have watched all of these shows I am pretty sure and I always feel bad for the people in them but I hold it together. This one has me bawling my eyes out. I can not imagine having to leave any of my children behind but I understand why he did what he did. When they wrote notes to their family I lost it. I am so happy they made it home to their family!
The boy Scout one in the grand canyon got me
@@kaylagilbert3677 yeah that one, me too. I’m getting upset just remembering it now that you mention it 😢
1st Survival, need to write big help on snow
Dad need to go back and learn more survival hahah
The idea of blasting music through the speakers on the ski slopes is so ingenious! Shame they strayed so far
First rule of survival, go down mountain when weather looks bad.
Young Bruce Wayne in training
Thought I was only one that noticed.
What Mr. Coulliard should have done at the very beginning was is stay put in that situation. The whiteout would have probably cleared and had the better idea where they were, or they could have been found much sooner... It was a sad decision what Mr. Coulliard made that day.
After the whiteout go back up the hill! This episode shouldn't exist.
Watched this like 7 years ago probably didnt get to emotional, now I have a 5 year old boy It brought tears.