BASE jumper Andrew Kalinyak survived “just a little mishap”—a BASE soar gone unsuitable—in Moab, Utah a few months in the past, and it almost killed him. Fortunately, it didn’t, however the highway to restoration has been an extended one. After leaping from a cliff, Kalinyak ended up hanging the cliffside after which spiraling towards the bottom, bumping into the cliff a number of extra instances till he crumpled on the rocks far beneath.
“I had just a little mishap about 2 months in the past and I’ve been within the hospital ever since,” wrote Kalinyak in an Instagram put up sharing a video of the accident and the aftermath. “I had a 180 and a cliffstrike inflicting a damaged femur, damaged tailbone, fractured pelvis, 7 fractured vertebrae, 9 damaged ribs, a damaged wrist, a damaged nasal cavity, a full rotator cuff tear, and a collapsed lung.”
Although quite a bit went unsuitable with that fateful soar, Kalinyak says plenty of issues additionally went proper, which is why he’s nonetheless alive. He shared the video of his journey this week, saying his final deliberate surgical procedure was Friday, and he hopes to be again BASE leaping quickly.
See footage from Kalinyak’s BASE soar gone unsuitable right here: