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Jamie - Climbing Against All Odds

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Episode 27: Jamie - Climbing Against All Odds

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The story of Jamie Andrew, a mountaineer who surivived a frozen ordeal on Mont Blanc.

In 1999 two Scottish mountaineers got stuck on Mont Blanc. Jamie's friend died, but he suffered severe frostbite and survived to tell the story.

Air an 26mh den Fhaoilleach 1999, cha b' urrainn sgioba teasairginn Chamonix anns na 'French Alps' ach aon a-mach as na dithis shreapadair Albannach a bha glacte aig oir deigh-shiubhail ann am Mont Blanc a shàbhaladh: as dèidh sia là 's iad reothte, chaidh fear aca a reothadh gu bàis agus bha an duine eile a' fulang le smiorsnachadh. Tha an sgioba meidigeach aig an ospadal Chamonix a' tighinn gu co-dhùnadh gun geàrr iad na làmhan agus na casan bho Jamie Andrew. Le casan fuadain, tha e ag ionnsachadh coiseachd a-rithist, a bhith ruith, agus a bhith a' cleachdadh na pàirtean a th' air fhàgail de na gàirdeanan aige mar làmhan, le dìreach aon amas na shealladh: tilleadh airson Mont Blanc a shreap mar chuimhneachan air caraid a bhàsaich.

On the 26th of January 1999, the Chamonix rescue team in the French Alps attempted to save two Scottish mountaineers stuck on the edge of a Mont Blanc glacier. After a six-day frozen ordeal, one died of hypothermia and the other suffered severe frostbite. The medical team at the Chamonix hospital saw no other solution but to amputate Jamie Andrew's hands and feet. Equipped with prosthetic feet, he learned to walk again, to run and to use his arm stumps like hands. All this with just one idea in mind - climb back up Mont Blanc in memory of his friend.

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