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Billie-Bonce β Alya stuck under her backpack
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Published: 2009-01-28 22:22:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 12830; Favourites: 46; Downloads: 197
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Alya and her friends met some guys who invited them to a serious mountain hike. Little those guys knew about Alya's abilities. Alya was in better physical condition than other girls, she was not upset by sleeping on hard uneven rocks and by carrying her heavy backpack, she patiently accepted the absence of shower and warm water, she had some experience of rock climbing and knew how to deal with an ice axe. However, Alya couldn't avoid getting herself in a serious trouble more than once.That day they had to cross the area of the mudslide. Nobody had any problems with that. But Alya had. All of a sudden, her legs sank into the mud, the momentum pushed her forward, she fell on her hands, and her heavy backpack pressed her down. Both her legs and both her arms sank deep into the thick mud. Alya's friends laughed as usual, saying that she is sinking "doggie style". But the guys were more experienced and they instantly realized that she is in real danger.
Alya feared to take a deep breath, each slightest movement dragged her down. She could not call for help, as her mouth then would be full of mud. She was silently lying under her backpack unable to take it off and her only hope was that the guys would come to rescue quickly.
In a moment the guys were near Alya, they quickly took off her pack and helped her to pull her arms out of the mud. She ended up standing to her hips in the mud and sinking even deeper. The suction of the mud held her feet in hiking boots on place. Getting her out was not easy. It was real mud rescue. The guys used their ice axes to dig around Alya; they had to invent something to lean on, and something to prevent the mud to fill the hole that they dug. They worked frantically but it took hours to get her out.
Alya was scared and exhausted, but when the guys finally pulled her out she gave each of them so hot kisses that they remembered the sweetness of her lips, the trembling of her body, and the shine of her eyes forever. (However, next year they refused to take Alya to the hike with them)
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Actually, the body is so buoyant in thick mud or quicksand, that this is the only way you could actually sink completely, with extra dense weight.
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Yes, but there are many possibilities given by peat (which is less dense than water) or by mud/quicksand under the water, or by mud/quicksand on slopes (as a result of mudslides or some construction work), or sinkholes... We never can be sure that a damsel would not find a proper distress
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Well, even if you canβt sink, you can still get immovably stuck if you get trapped out on your own in the middle of nowhere and die of exposure, especially if the water in the sand is very cold.
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That's true.
In my stories, I prefer that victims are eventually rescued, sometimes soon, sometimes after a long ordeal.
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Glad you posted a link to this in your recent journal, Billie-it's another one I hadn't seen before.
Makes me wonder just what all she had IN that large pack...Looks like she's ready to be out in the woods for a week!
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Ha-ha, yes, the backpack is huge!
Well, I mentioned that they were on a mountain hike. And I had in mind the type of mountain hike typical for our part of the world. We usually planned such hike for 10-14 days, with everything needed for all this time kept in the backpacks. There were no hotels or huts on the way. Very different from typical European hike where you may go from one hut to another, no need to have a tent (and usually it is the only permitted way - setting camps is prohibited in most places), no need to carry all the food - there is a cafe on the way (and making bonfires is prohibited, too). Unfortunately, our style of mountain hike was available for everybody willing only in the times of the USSR. Now the most attractive mountains are on the borders between not-so-friendly countries (e.g. Russia and Georgia), so many regions are closed, others are not safe (terrorists, rebels, simple bandits, incredibly corrupted police). That's the truth. But well, it is possible to carry that heavy backpacks (with food for 2 weeks) even within Ukraine in Carpathians, and I suppose, if one would try really hard,Β it is possible to find deep sticky mud, too. Β
So, yes, heavy pack is heavy. But don't worry, girls normally carry only their own belongings and relatively light common stuff. Guys normally take the heaviest things, like all metal gear and canned food. However, the next year after this unhappy case, Alya was on a hike again, and while her backpack wasn't that huge, it was really heavy.
I was so heavy because she prepared to celebrate her 20th birthday and took some unaccounted things - namely, a bottle of Captain Morgan for guys and a bottle of Martini for girls. It proved to be too much of additional weight for her and she was totally exhausted, but in the result everyone was happy - though it is another story, yet to be told.
And the last picture
shows Alya one year after that, already with her boyfriend, in really high mountains, and that was supposed to be far from Ukraine, possibly in Alps or even Andes.Β
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Hopeless, no doubt!
Something like that happened with one man in a novel by Jack London. (He was rescued by a woman)
And something of that sort (but with snow instead of mud) happened with a girl in one of our mountain hikes (though, in that case her backpack shifted upwards and was lying mostly on her shoulders). Poor thing could not get up and could not turn over.
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I remember seeing this before. Is this a redo of the original concept?
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No. It is original. It was submitted to DeepSinking long ago. I was shy to submit it to some groups here because I didn't (and honestly I still don't) think this work is top quality. I thought I shall submit only fully colored works to groups. But now I see a lot of low-quality work submitted and appreciated, so I thought why should I stay aside? After all, the concept is not bad here.
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I can relate. I have submitted nothing from my gallery. I just think it doesn't need to be only the artist that submits with groups. Fans can too.
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Actually, there is a good mechanism here. An admin can invite an artwork into his group. Then the author gets notification and accepts or declines the invitation by pressing one button. If he accepted it - his work instantly appears in the group gallery.
This way I got my works featured in several groups, and subsequently I joined some of them.
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Yep, this is typical mistake of those who go for a serious hike for the first time - they took to many things.
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