The Fall That Changed Everything: My Rock Climbing Near-Death Experience
I don't want any details of this story changed or names tweaked. It's my truth and it's the moment that changed my life.
One second I was reaching for a handhold on the rock face, and the next I was falling twenty-five feet toward jagged granite rocks below. Time slowed down in that strange way it does during catastrophe, and I had enough presence of mind to think, "This is it. This is how I die."
This is my true story of a rock climbing accident that nearly killed me—and how it transformed my entire perspective on life and death. What started as a routine climb with my friend Jamie became a…
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