People Who Survived What Should Have Been Instant Death

Hippos Are Dangerous

Once a tour guide for tourists in the Zambezi River in Africa, Paul Templer’s canoe was almost flipped by a bull hippo, throwing another guide into the dangerous river. As he tried to save his colleague, the huge hippo was hungrier than the game itself and swallowed his head.

That wasn’t the end there. The hippo mauled him several times as Templer’s foot was ripped, his severed arm, and his ribs broken while tearing holes in his back and chest. He was able to recover after a seven-hour operation. Boy, that’s the example of luck right there.

Still on the way, Aron Rolston hassomething in common with Templer that was even turned into a movie.