Saved by goats after my fall from the sacred mountain

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

When he slid off a 40-metre cliff in the jungle, Morgan Segui thought he was sure to die.

Three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food; that is the rule that every mountaineer knows by heart. For Morgan Segui, a French acrobat-turned-explorer, he knew it meant his chances of survival were vanishingly small. He lay at the bottom of a dry gorge in the Timorese jungle of South Asia, miles from help, after taking a dramatic fall which broke several bones and left a huge gash to his head. Dazed and without water, he spent three days and nights on the jungle floor trying to cling to life. Until, astonishingly, a herd of goats came to his rescue.

Morgan's written a book about his ordeal: Cinq Jours au Timor, published in French by Premier Parallèle.

Presenter: Asya Fouks Producer: Edgar Maddicott

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan. It's honestly one of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for
0:21.6	Lucan. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex Fontonselman. This is
0:27.7	The Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. The moment where the roots broke, I mean the time stop.
0:38.3	The fall was three big punch, one punch in my head,
0:43.3	something on my left side, then lose conscience.
0:47.3	I shouts, help for one minute, but of course no one reply.
0:52.3	It was so far in the middle of the jungle.
0:55.0	I was sure, sure that I will maybe spend one or two days here and die.
1:03.0	When that route gave way, Morgan Segwi fell 40 meters down a cliff face on a mountain in the jungle of Timor-Lest. He'd been trying to run up this
1:13.1	thousand-meter mountain in a day, but he got lost, and he was now fading in and out of consciousness.
1:20.1	The night was closing in. His water bottle was empty, and he could barely move. Morgan had broken
1:26.3	several bones, and his head had a huge gash in it.
1:29.8	He was convinced he wouldn't make it out alive.
1:33.6	He'd spent five days on that mountain.
1:36.4	Before, astonishingly, a herd of goats came to his rescue.
1:42.8	I'm Asia Fuchs, and this is Lives Less Ordinary,
1:46.3	from the BBC World Service.
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