At the 1992 World Extreme Skiing Championships in Valdez, Alaska, Garret Bartelt suffered a legendary crash—described as an 800-foot tumble down a steep chute on a massive 3,000-foot face—bouncing, flipping, and slamming through terrain in a way that looks unsurvivable. He was airlifted out and later underwent surgery for a broken femur, repaired with a rod, which is consistent with later profiles recounting the injuries and recovery. The reason this story keeps resurfacing is the recovery arc: