Published: 2 Mar 13 10:07 CET | Print version
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For a 49-year-old Swedish man a late night routine cross-country trip turned into an 18 hour ordeal after he fell and broke his leg and was forced to crawl to safety.
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cell phones, may work or may not work, but still it would be better to have them with you now that they are quite common!!!
If I'm skiing late or remotely I usually carry my phone and a small headtorch(amongst a few other little things), but I'd still probably drag myself towards help, it's a pride thing.
Stockholmsam - dangerous circumstance?
Yeah, it's dark, it's icy, it's remote, it's cold enough to be life-threatening and the fella was skiing. Sure, we see it as a fun sport, but people get killed skiing. Maybe it is unusual to get killed cross-country skiing, but falling through ice, sliding into a ravine, getting lost, having a heart-attack or getting eaten by bears, wolves or the occasional mad Norwegian are all potential scenarios. This guy fell and broke his leg. What more proof does one need that such activity is dangerous? It is not the same as an evening stroll through the snowy street-lit paths leading to Hemköp on the corner.