Living in the Dakotahs you hear your share of winter survival stories and get lots of advice on what to pack in your emergency kit. Now, along with blankets, candles, powerbars, and kitty litter (for traction), you can add something much more fun: a couple of cases of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Tip to Mark Steyn, writing in the London Telegraph.
I was very moved by the story of Mr Richard Kral, a Slovak gentleman found staggering drunk down a snowy trail a few days back. He'd been motoring through the Tatra Mountains in his Audi when he got buried by an avalanche. Opening the window and frantically clawing at the snow, he grasped that he couldn't dig his way out faster than the white stuff would come into the car and bury him. So he looked around and his eye fell on the 60 half-litre bottles of beer he happened to have with him. He had a drink and midway through realised that he could urinate on the snow to melt it.
And he did: "Man Peed Way out of Avalanche," as one headline put it. "It was hard," the plucky Slovak told the local press, "and now my kidneys and liver hurt."
Not exactly Shackelton, clawing his way across the Antarctic. But heroic nonetheless.
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