¿Cuál es la Mejor Radio Portátil para Emergencias en España?
Cuando todo se cae, la radio sigue ahí. Esa es la gran razón por la que, en una emergencia real, una radio portátil puede convertirse en uno de los equipos más valiosos de tu kit de supervivencia.
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Ten cases of human survival and endurance
The story of the 67-year-old American who survived by eating insects, leaves, and stream water for six days after falling into a ravine in a national forest near Los Angeles brings to mind other cases of survival in adversity. David LaVau, who fell 60 meters down a cliff while trying to avoid another car, was found by his relatives because he had used his debit card at a store near where he was found. He had been lost for six days, with broken bones and a dislocated shoulder. We know that the human body can endure an incomprehensible level of suffering. But the most exceptional cases of survival also highlight the persistence and durability of the human spirit and the courage of those forced to experience extraordinary challenges. Juliane Koepcke, 1971: The 17-year-old girl and her mother, a zoologist, were traveling on a turboprop plane from Lima to a remote part of the Amazon jungle in Peru when the aircraft was struck by lightning. The fuselage broke into pieces, and Juliane remained in her seat, in an intact row. She was unconscious after falling more than two miles from the air. The other 91 passengers perished in the accident. For the next ten days, as her wounds filled with maggots, the teenager wandered through the forest and crocodile-infested streams until she finally found a hut by a river, where she was rescued by loggers. Filmmaker Werner Herzog was booked on the same flight but was told at the last minute there was no room for him. The Old Christians amateur rugby team from Uruguay, 1972: A chartered Uruguayan Air Force plane was headed to Chile when it crashed in the Andes mountains, killing 12 of the 45 people on board. Trapped on a snowy, isolated mountain, others soon succumbed to their injuries, cold, or starvation, including eight who perished in an avalanche. When they ran out of food, some of them ate the flesh of the dead, but one who refused to do so died of hunger. The 16 survivors were rescued 72 days after the accident, when two of them crossed the mountain range for ten days to seek help in Chile. Joe Simpson, 1985: British mountaineers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were climbing the 6,400-meter Siula Grande mountain in the Peruvian Andes when Simpson, then 25, fell and broke his leg. Yates, 21, spent a day trying to lower Simpson with a rope to the base, but accidentally ended up lowering him onto a ledge. Simpson was left hanging helplessly, while Yates began to slip. When Yates cut the rope to save his own life, Simpson fell down the side of the mountain. Trapped without water or food, crippled and suffering hallucinations from the pain, Simpson still managed to climb out of the crevice and slowly make his way across rocky terrain, a glacier, around a lake, and into a rocky valley. Three and a half days later, he reached camp. He later wrote a book about his ordeal, Touching the Void, which was adapted into a film in 2003, winning several awards. Aron Ralston, April 2003: The protagonist of Danny Boyle's film 127 Hours, Ralston was hiking alone in a remote canyon in Utah when a boulder fell next to his arm and trapped him. The experienced 27-year-old hiker ran out of water three days later. Another two days passed before he realized his only chance of survival would be drastic action: cutting off his own arm. "First I was able to break the radius and, after a few minutes, the ulna at the wrist. From there, I had the knife, applied the tourniquet, and proceeded to cut. The process took about an hour," he later said. He then descended to the bottom of the canyon, where he met other hikers. Later, park rangers used heavy equipment to move the 363-kilogram rock and retrieve Ralston's arm, which was taken to a morgue. Colin Jones, June 2003: The Australian miner was trapped a mile and a half underground in a coal mine on Australia's east coast when his tractor overturned in a shaft, crushing his arm against a wall. Terrified that the tractor would explode before rescuers arrived, he begged a colleague to amputate his arm. When the colleague refused, he did it himself with a short-bladed knife. Daryl Jane, December 2006: The Washington state resident was trapped when his Jeep got stuck in the snow on a remote road near Mount Adams. Jane, 37, rationed his water, rice cakes, and plantains. When he ran out of water, he drank from puddles. After nearly two weeks, he had already written farewell letters to his loved ones when he was found by snowmobile rescuers. Despite the frigid temperatures, he did not suffer frostbite. Footballers in the Gulf of Mexico, February 2009: Four athletes, including two American footballers, fell into the water in the Gulf of Mexico, 121 kilometers off the coast, when their fishing boat capsized. The boat overturned when its owner shot the engine in an effort to free a jammed anchor. At first, the men remained calm, even as night fell and a storm approached, clinging to the overturned hull. After nearly two days, and in waves up to four and a half meters high, they began to shake violently and hallucinate, as one by one they succumbed to delirium, hypothermia, and exhaustion. Only Nick Schuyler, a personal trainer, survived. Jamie Neale, July 2009: The 19-year-old British hiker was lost for 12 days in Australia's Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. He told authorities he became disoriented and wandered off route. He then struggled to survive when helicopters stopped flying over the area. He partly survived by sheltering with tree bark, and was rescued when two soldiers hiking in the forest heard his calls for help. Amos Wayne Richards, September 2011: Richards, 64, broke his leg and dislocated a shoulder after falling while hiking alone in a Utah wilderness. With only two protein bars to eat, Richards reset his shoulder and began crawling across the terrain towards his car. He collected rainwater in a bottle and managed to move five miles very slowly. After four days, he was discovered by rescuers searching for him by helicopter, who treated his leg injury and dehydration. Jin Abe and Sumi Abe, March 2011: Sumi Abe and her grandson Jin Abe were trapped under their house when the March 11 tsunami swept through their neighborhood in Ishinomaki, along Japan's northeast coast. After nine days, the teenager was finally able to move through a gap in the debris. They survived by eating yogurt and other snacks from the refrigerator and were rescued with symptoms of hypothermia.
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Epic Fantasy Prequel Coming to Spain in January 2026
The Game of Thrones universe expands with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, an ambitious epic fantasy prequel arriving in Spain on January 19, 2026. Set one hundred years before the original series, it adapts George R.R. Martin's Dunk and Egg tales and offers a more intimate story, centered on adventure, honor, and friendship. This new production promises to explore Westeros from a different perspective, maintaining the essence that made the saga a global phenomenon.
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