“I heard the noise and put my head up, but as I rolled forward the wrought iron headboard came down and pinned Sally to the bed.” Freezing cold water from a broken mains water pipe on the road above them soon started “flying around”.
I was trapped for three days under 4,000 tons of rubble – the sole survivor of the landslide that killed my wife In 1997, the ski lodge where Stuart Diver lived with his partner Sally was destroyed.
It was 11.35pm and 4,000 tons of mud, building and debris was hurtling down the mountainside in Thredbo, New South Wales, towards Bimbadeen Lodge, where he had been asleep with his wife, Sally.
Diver fumbled around in the pitch black room for a way out, cutting his hands and feet on broken glass.
Diver, found a small pocket of air to breathe by arching his back and tilting his head up.
