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The American, having broken his leg on a campaign, crawled over the desert for four days, inspired by the film "127 hours"
Rare endurance and dedication was shown by a 64-year-old American who crawled with a broken foot in the state of Utah for four days to get out to people.
Now Amos Wayne Richards comes to their senses surrounded by Homes in Concord, North Carolina. Clinging to life, Richards was inspired by the film "127 hours", writes The Daily Telegraph newspaper.
The hero of this film also showed miracles of courage and endurance, escaping from the same desert: he cut off his hand pressed by a boulder to go out to people.
It turned out that Richards, going for a walk alone, fell into the Little Blue John canyon from a three -meter height. As a result of the fall, the unsuccessful tourist received a fracture of the legs and a dislocation of the shoulder, which he was able to correct himself.
“It took me only 3-4 minutes to straighten my shoulder, and as soon as I corrected it and got up, I felt that the ankle is a little cramping,” the American said on the air of one of the television companies.
He had to get out on his own, since mobile communications in those places do not work. He had only two protein bars with him. He drank rain water, which he was typing in an empty bottle. The air temperature in the desert was about 20 degrees in the afternoon and a little lower than this mark at night.
Since there was no one to help the traveler, he had no choice but to crawl along a rocky wasteland to his car left far behind. Returning in his own foot, Richards crawled about eight kilometers.
The next day, Richards began to look for patrolmen, finding that he had not returned to his tent. Two days later, they found his car. It turned out that the remote canyon, in which Richards fell, is outside the national park. As soon as the search engines realized in which direction the tourist left, they raised a helicopter into the air. Seeing him, Richards turned on the outbreak of his camera to attract attention. He had about three kilometers to the car.
In the Richards hospital, they took with a fragmented ankle and dehydration.