Bra gives support to lost hiker

Bra gives support to lost hiker

A 24-year-old American hiker given up for dead by mountain rescuers was saved when she threw her bra into a cable car.


Jessica Bruinsma, recovered from her ordeal, holds up the bra that saved her life.

Jessica Bruinsma had fallen off a ledge in the Austrian Alps and was stranded injured for 70 hours in freezing temperatures.

Mountain rescue teams had been looking for her in the wrong place and gave up the search because they believed she'd fallen to her death.

But Jessica spotted a cable car on its way up the mountain in Salzburg and quickly flung her bra into a container carrying food as it passed her.

Workers higher up the peak realised the undies must have been thrown in as a message and sent out a search party.

"It certainly beats sending up a flare," said one rescue worker. "She hadn't been wearing much when she started on her walk and she ended up with even less on," they added.

The woman is now recovering in hospital.

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Reyn says:

"She hadn't been wearing much when she started on her walk and she ended up with even less on," they added."

Discuss the inevitable implications of this poor woman's actions.