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When all hope is lost...

When all hope is lost...
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Justin has been lying in the canyon in winter weather with a badly broken leg for 36 hours. He has given up hope. Just before night falls a second time, he sees a face rounding a nearby boulder. He is saved, but only just. He was in imminent danger of succumbing to toxic shock from his leg wounds.

After 90 days in hospital and 13 operations on his leg, the doctors had to amputate. But Justin was lucky to survive at all. Neither Justin nor Jeremy have been canyoneering since

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