Survival Stories #3: Mauro Prosperi! — Transcript
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- 0:00hello guys sorry well Scout here and
- 0:01today we're gonna see the survival story
- 0:04of mother prospering so more prosperous
- 0:06attended the marathon the sub less which
- 0:11is one of the toughest marathons around
- 0:13the world why because it is a six day
- 0:17and a hundred and fifty six mile
- 0:19marathon held in Sahara Desert in
- 0:23southern Morocco there it's the place
- 0:25that only the craziest [ __ ] runners
- 0:28go so this guy decided to go there to
- 0:31test his abilities and take his chances
- 0:34after running for four days he managed
- 0:36to get the seventh place when suddenly
- 0:39at storm a row the rules was that if a
- 0:43sandstorm hits the marathon then the
- 0:47runners should stop and wait for
- 0:49assistance but prosperity of course
- 0:51decided to jail with the sandstorm and
- 0:54run through it besides a little sand
- 0:56never heard anybody he wrapped a scarf
- 0:59around his head and kept on running when
- 1:02the storm stopped six hours later
- 1:04Prospera found and he was lost deep
- 1:06somewhere in the desert completely alone
- 1:09in one of the world's largest and most
- 1:11inhospitable deserts prosper he had no
- 1:14choice but on keep walking he even peed
- 1:18in his bottle to preserve the fluids of
- 1:20his body eventually he stopped at an
- 1:23abandoned shrine and then he made the
- 1:26decision the final decision to catch two
- 1:30bats cut off their heads drink their
- 1:33blood and with their teeth to slice his
- 1:37wrists thankfully he was so dehydrated
- 1:39that his blood had actually thickened to
- 1:42the point where his cut wrists were
- 1:46unable to bleed out when he awoke with
- 1:49nothing but a couple of beating scars
- 1:52and headache he felt confident and
- 1:54decided to fight for his life and for
- 1:57the next five days Prospera continued to
- 2:00push through the desert eating lizards
- 2:02scorpions and raking the jus of leaves
- 2:05until he met a group of Norman's who
- 2:08said him that he was in Algeria 100
- 2:11thirty miles from where he was supposed
- 2:13to be if he survived hell yeah two years
- 2:17later he managed to complete the run and
- 2:19scratched AF so his mistake was that he
- 2:22went against the elements and that got
- 2:25him lost in the middle of nowhere
- 2:27drinking his urine was his only chance
- 2:30of getting some fluids but generally it
- 2:32is bad a desert and especially Sahara is
- 2:35a really really bad place to get lost
- 2:39though you're being dehydrated really
- 2:41fast even without doing nothing what you
- 2:44should do is to know that you can stand
- 2:48for three days under normal
- 2:50circumstances without water but in a
- 2:54desert with so much heat in your head
- 2:57and so much tiredness you will stand a
- 3:01day or two if you are lucky some guys
- 3:04down of the video thanks for watching
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- 3:16[Music]
- 3:17[Applause]
- 3:21[Music]
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