Tuesday, February 05, 2019

Ohio man thankful to be alive after bystanders resuscitate him on Vail Mountain | SummitDaily.com

Ohio man thankful to be alive after bystanders resuscitate him on Vail Mountain | SummitDaily.com
See the source image"An Ohio man is alive and well after suffocating upside down in deep snow on Saturday in Vail Mountain’s Marmot Valley before some other skiers and snowboarders, including a CPR-certified doctor, came to his rescue.
“I was dead. No doubt about it,” said Michael Laush
...Tom saw a woman in black and white “just screaming for help.
I didn’t know what she needed help for.”
...“When I got there, there were two ski boots sticking out of the snow,” Tom said.
...“It probably took six or seven minutes to get him out,” Karen said.
Laush said he stands 6 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 270 pounds.
“Digging that deep we realized we couldn’t get down to his face, so we started giving him a pull,” Tom said.
“I put one boot under my armpit and one of the other guys did the same thing and then we had a third guy pulling on his belt and got him out.”...
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