I have a story about me and then one about a buddy of mine.
I took a nasty fall a few years back in New Zealand. It was just myself and a buddy that got flown wayyyy up into the east coast of the Southern Alps. Our plan was to stay for 4 days and try for Chamois and maybe a tahr. First mistake was that in our haste to unload the chopper, we forgot the emergency radio. The pilot said he would return to the same spot and pick us up and at the same time drop my buddy's dad and sister off to use the camp that we set up. To make a long story short, the first day (after I thankfully got a trophy Chamois) on the way back down to camp late in the afternoon, I fell off a 40 ft. ledge and then went into the head over heels tumble for a long while after that. I had dislocated my hip, fractured my pelvis, fractured my ankle, and had several large cuts. Well, we then realized how bad we had screwed up. Remember that radio!! Well we didn't !! I had to lay on the side of that mountain for 3 full days before the pilot returned. He ended up flying me to the nearest small town with a clinic and landed right in the lawn. They thought I was in bad enough shape that they called in the Medivac chopper from Christchurch. Spent 9 days in the hospital and another 6 weeks in a brace and on crutches. Point of my story, buy travelers insurance!!!! Didn't have to pay for anything including the first class ticket ride home because I could'nt straightn my leg out enough to ride coach.
Now my buddy's story::
He was bowhunting out of a stand that was about 12 ft. up. While he was waiting, he was doing something that almost cost him his life. He was actually sharping his knife at the exact time the limb he had placed his stand on gave way. He ended up landing on the knife at his left wrist. When he woke up, he was in a huge pool of blood. On top of that, he was hunting that day at the lease alone and it was a 65 mile drive back to town. He somehow made it back to his truck and got out of the ranch. He was drifting in and out of concoiousness while he was trying to get back to the highway. He ended up driving himself all the way to the hospital by pouring cold beer on himself to stay awake. When it was all said and done, He had lost a life threatning amount of blood, severed ALL the tendons that control all 5 fingers and had broke his wrist in the actual fall. We never let him forget that he is the luckest SOB to still walk this earth!!!!
Scottyboy