Real Survival Stories

Highland Plunge: Unlikely Saviour on the Isle of Skye

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Episode notes

An outdoor instructor plummets into peril on the misty, mythical Isle of Skye. Iain Afshar is traversing a precipitous sawtooth ridgeline in the Cuillin Hills when he tumbles blindly into impenetrable fog. Bloodied, broken and stranded, it seems he has minutes to live. But as he clings to life, his ultimate salvation will come from the unlikeliest of sources…

A Noiser production, written by Joe Viner.

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