Thread: Hunter trapped by 1 ton boulder

Originally Posted by No good names left

Lucky they had a PLB and didn't have to resort to using a swiss army knife. re movie "127 hours"

Never saw that movie, but my dad worked in the Welsh mines when he was a kid leading the horses hauling the coal carts - they'd go blind in the dark and get a bit crotchety sometimes and he had one arm a bit 'buckled' after a horse grabbed hold and proved reluctant to let go. He told me they had axes in those mines for when/if a miner got his arm or leg trapped - they didn't bother with the niceties of digging, they just the victim and themselves out before any more came down.
He never saw it happen, but there were guys in his village who had a leg or arm gone courtesy of those axes.

I've often wondered if they bothered getting the horses out when it turned to shit ?