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Missing Hiker's Last Words Found in Handwritten Note on Mountain

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0:00 [Music] hey do you want to do you want to hear a sad one for once in your life you're going to tell us anyway so let's just go drop it you know what it's not even sad it's actually kind of cool I do like I do like the way you tell stories Ryan there's a guy named Austin King he's 22 Boo and um he's a hiker what what you didn't boo that he's a hiker I was paying attention to the Sim over here okay I I love I love hi you like hiking yeah but I also think it's a pretty lame ass thing like as an activity yeah exactly that's my thing you don't want to tell people well then I love hiking yeah we love it like you walk in a forest or a park I do like I mean the way this guy did it it's pretty cool he's 22 he reached the summit he reached

0:50 the summit of Eagle Peak Eagle Peak you know Eagle Peak is it's um that Yellowstone's tallest mountain standing at 11,361 FT say it again holy ████ he reached the peak of the Mountain at September 17 but 3 days later he was supposed to be picked up at the bottom but never showed up he made it to the top but he didn't know how to get down but he they was lost back down they couldn't find him but then what they were able to get was the registry at the top of the mountain which I didn't know exists like when you at the top you right in the oh sick like I thought usually you just stack a rock on the next rock that was stacked oh that's why people do that huh I I didn't know that I I just kicked them don't looking me like that that's so I'm not an avid

1:40 hiker that is that's what they do in Moana no I didn't know that cuz then you have to go up there to put your name all the past Island well who's the person that collects it love that mov that's him that's him he's young guy damn dude so wait what's his letter that's the letter so the um what it say that's what he wrote in the registry and it's actually a pretty cool thing I know what happen Oh I thought it was like a Death Note go ahead but you have to read it like so yeah heot so they never saw they never found him by the way it's been obviously over a month um but they do have this last thing that he wrote and it says I can't feel my fingers and my glasses are so fogged from the ruthless weather of the mountains I truly cannot believe I am here after what it took to be here I endured rain sleet hail and

2:30 and the most wind I've ever felt I could not see Eagle for most of the day due to most of the fog I've ever seen in my life I free soloed too many Cliffs to get here and walked up to the Peak from the connecting Peak AKA not the right path so that's where they think it went wrong for him to come back down because he couldn't retrace his way back down oh cuz he didn't go up the right he said I am 22 years old and will never forget today the rest of my life life is beautiful go out and live it Austin King man that guy is cool that's really cool but then like afterwards you die and then like when you hear that you go I'm going stay home yeah kind of but you don't we don't got a free solo you know maybe he's just living on forever I think I he is eternal it does suck that

3:20 he's only 22 that's such a young like man you know what he did you remember you remember watching crashing Tiger Hidden Dragon oh yeah and at the end J they fly into the cloud goes up to that peak of the mountain on the you're thinking of gree when they're in the car going yo a mountain lion got him I didn't know that was the inspiration and they say if you jump with your heart full you can fly up to the mountain yeah it's called Heaven you son of a ████ it's called Heaven don't do that that was a good set up no mountain lion got him you got me you think a mountain line go no you said he fell off right yeah a mountain line wrote the same butter that uh I don't know most of these things someone just like Falls freezes do you think he don't have friends the what you think he don't have friends he did it by himself cuz you're not supposed to hike without

4:11 friends well guess what free solo it's not free friend free solo just means like you you don't got cables which is so crazy to do also free solo had camera crew other people he was training for it no you can't get a GPS on you for God's sake like nobody thought about this but you know that's I guess where the 22-year-old comes into play right he's just like hey ████ it I'm just going to go yeah I'm young he's Invincible your Apple location with a loved one unless he's like I be cheating and I don't want my mom to know his mom to know cheating with the mountain line the rescue team they switched into recovery mode which is the one where they're just trying to find the body and didn't find it yet but Austin with this is a really cool thing his dad did a GoFundMe to raise uh he raised 18K to help compensate the rescue

5:03 teams wow hear of that usually people are like I want money for me to cope but this guy's trying to give it to the team that's sick that's such a cool you know what's funny how like all these good honorable people like go away they they die right and then all these scum ████ bags live forever yeah it's just like the drug driver thing right they always just they're fine y they say they live because they're going to be dealt with the longest pain ever oh really they're going to deal with the longest pain expect that people other people are gone they don't got to feel nothing oh really they're sleeping forever say eagle Eagle yeah e that always sounds be serious and ████ Ying me it sounds so funny when like a

5:55 drug driver like kills a family and he's like but what about the pain I have to endure no I did this bro you see that one guy he was getting plastered at this ████ uh liquor store his old white guy he's so stereotypical and then he drives into a ████ nail salon yeah I saw that yeah he was like kind of Airborne the he took off like a 100 miles hour a little bit slower than that fast but it was hella fast he did he was in the midair and then you see him like stumbling out and ████ and you're like bro this guy killed like five people dud totally fine totally fine I thought that fol got out and then he ████ found a comfortable chair sat down and then a lady came and just started boiling his feet fixing boiling that's what they do duh they do that yeah they put the little fish and then they start biting your feet and then it starts Bo mostly

6:47 boiling these are fish that can handle boiling water oh got it he killed five people something like that he killed he fell then like they opened up the door then he fell onto one of the chairs like this and then the Vietnamese lady started doing his nail talking ████ look at the guy single guy man no girlfriend yeah turn into a nail bit got to take a break just working hard still yeah that really sucks have you seen those videos of people have you seen those videos of people crossing rivers where they're like um I know there's like a thing where people like they get desperate when they feel like they're going to drowned and they start pulling down people and then that guy drowns but then they survive because they just like used them as a I haven't seen those baby but that would make me so upset they're like help me help me that's a stress response thank you now I can

7:38 survive it's that yeah it's that that's crazy huh it's ████ up if I were to see that on camera that's why you never you never do it like you you stay on the ledge you never jump in or you put out a stick well that's that's what they said is one of the dangers of trying to rescue people who are drowning that's one of the dangers why why it's not for everyone to just like jump in and grab the guy CU he'll grab you and then he's tired and desperate you know you're trying to help that they're they train you to pull if they start trying to drown you you pull them into the ground into the water so you just keep going you go further down cuz they'll let go pull them you push yourself all the way down first cuz they don't want to go down oh and then you go and then you bounce off you learn specific thing huh that's what bar said and we trust him bar because he's weird but he does take all those training train you to save

8:29 people Scout only train you to save yourself really no not really what is the protocol though like if you're in a don't you guys talk about thatle Scout you never they don't tell you how to like save a drowning person they tell you never try and save somebody if it puts you in danger D dang cuz then you get two for one you know and you don't want whole fire department is just staying in it's always call out for it's always check if they're in danger if you can't reasonably tell it's always call out for help so that people know what's going on and somebody else is already going for help never put yourself in danger to try to Res somebody you knock the guy out and then you save him that's what I was thinking Nick if you were to go in there yeah and then drag his body out BK him dude I would start drowning dud dunk them that's what we did a water P get on

9:19 your shoulders just ████ dunk you where are you where czy it is crazy how simple those because it just shows like when you're in some crazy stressful situation you forget like the most basic that's that's the main thing a lot of people don't realize is that how are you going to act when it really happens yeah for real all the people in the comments of like guy like me would have saved him you know like guy like me seen those like everybody in the comments suddenly everyone's a hero or they blame it all and like this is what's wrong with today's generation well that's kind of true in some videos but like not those ones I love how much of those comments have evolved to becoming trolling now like it'll show like a video of like a a demolition like a building and then everyone goes how could you just stand there and record I love those comments

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