The Irish who survived the 200 meter drop in Volcano in Indonesia where Juliana Marins died

BBC News Brasil talked to Paul Farrell, an Irish who had an accident in the same Indonesia volcano where Brazilian Juliana Marins died. Less than a year after the experience, he tells how his life changed completely. Alpinist shows how rescue team spent the night in cliff in Indonesia Irish Paul Farrell, 32, underwent an experience that began very similar to that of Brazilian publicist Juliana Marins, who died after falling during a trail on Mount Rinjani, Indonesia. In October last year, he took the same ride when he had an accident and fell about 200 meters on a sloping and dangers. Farrell remembers having woken up in the early hours of dawn at camp-base to make the trail. According to him, the first part of the route was quiet, despite the difficulty to reach the summit. “The floor there is different, the kind you seem to take a step forward and two backwards. Because we are in a volcano, the terrain is sandy and you can sink your feet,” he describes in an interview with BBC News Brazil. After reaching the top of the hill, Farrell made his way back when he was bothered by the amount of small boulders that accumulated inside the tennis he piped. “The situation was uncomfortable, so I decided to remove the sneakers to clean them. To do this, I took the gloves I wore in my hands, just to facilitate this work,” he says, who was born in the city of Sligo, on the southwest coast of Ireland. It all went well when a gust of wind made the gloves fly toward the volcano. “At this time, I knelt. And the floor where I stepped simply collapsed.” Farrell fell ribbed below and says he entered a “survival mode.” “The speed with which I fell only increased, the adrenaline was a thousand. I quickly concluded that it could die at any time.” Irish Paul Farrell at the peak of Rinjani provisional shelter and awaits the Irishman says that the only alternative in that situation was to find some larger stone where he could grasp, to interrupt the fall accelerated by the sloping ground. “I tried to stick my nails, my hands, at anything, just to slow down. Until I glimpsed a large rock, almost a rock, and tried to deflect my way in that direction.” “I cried against the stone, but fortunately I managed to brake the descent.” Farrell stopped about 200 meters deep. There, he managed to resume his breath and check that, despite everything he has passed, he had suffered only a few cuts and scratches. “Even so, I wasn’t safe. In that place, you can slip at any time.” Farrell said he made the whole trail with a group. But at that specific time, there was only one French woman near him – who fortunately witnessed the whole scene. “I shouted with all the strength of my lungs to find the rest of the team and seek help. So she ran back to the base camp and warned people,” he details. The Irishman estimates that he remained in that rock for about five to six hours until the redemption arrived. “It was obviously very frightening. I prayed to God to leave there alive, or with just a few broken bones.” “To be honest, I would accept to break an arm, a leg, or all my bones to leave that situation. If I needed to make a pact with God or the devil to get out of life, I would.” Farrell said a team of professional climbers tried to make a makeshift rope, with clothes tied in each other to try to lift him. But the terrain did not allow him to leave the rock safely, at risk of sinking further. ‘Absolute relief’ passed at five hours, the rescue team that operates in the region finally managed to remove it from the site. By the way, according to Farrell’s own responders report, they were nearby to remove the body of a victim from another accident. When he finally found himself free from that situation, the Irish said he felt “absolute relief.” “It was very grateful and full of energy,” he describes. “I love adrenaline and extreme sports, but this was a situation that was very close to the limit,” admits Farrell. Asked by BBC News Brazil, he considers himself important to increase safety in the trails surrounding this Indonesian volcano, he has made a series of considerations and suggestions. “Firstly, I would like to regret the death of Juliana and provide my solidarity to her family at this time.” Juliana Marins Reproduction/Social Networks “on improvements, we need to consider that Indonesia is a poor country, with less resources. But naturally more money should be invested to increase safety there,” he says. “Suddenly they could rise the fee charged to visit the site.” “Or ensure that each group has at least two guides so that one of them remains in the rear and can offer some support to people who feel some discomfort and are left behind, as it seems to have been Juliana’s case,” Farrell suggests. New perspectives for life asked by the report would be the trail by Mount Rinjani again, the Irishman was soon to answer. “No doubt. I would be more cautious a second time, but climbing mountains is something I want to do for the rest of my life, even when I can.” The Irishman guarantees that the experience of being so close to death has completely changed the way he sees life. “It’s very rare for people to survive accidents like this, unfortunately. But when you see yourself alive after going through it, it starts to think about what is really important,” Farrell reflects, who gave the interview to BBC News Brasil from a yoga and meditation retreat in India. “Since I had the accident, my connection with God is much better. Now I try to live life in a way more aligned with the values ​​that are really central to me,” he concludes. 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