Airlifted Mid-Race: River Rescue and Ultra Cycling Safety with Robbie Danger Webb
About this episode
Robbie Danger Webb shares their harrowing experience of being stranded during the Monaro Cloudride ultra race and the subsequent rescue.
A few weeks ago Robbie was 500 kilometres into the Monaro Cloudride, a thousand-kilometre ultra race through the Australian high country, when a night-time Snowy River crossing went very wrong. They ended up stranded on a tiny island in the middle of the river with their bike, waiting for a rescue helicopter to winch them out. Robbie shares their experiences of this event including he decision to cross at night, what happens when fast water takes you down, the hours of calm problem-solv...
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