Good news article of a person recounting his many mistakes and subsequent rescue from Mt. Ripinsky in Alaska. Interesting to note the 3rd last paragraph in the article, his mistakes will be affecting him for the rest of his life.

One day away from a two-week holiday in San Diego, Keith Hutchins was braced against a sheer face on Mount Ripinsky, playing mind games with himself to stay awake and alive.

Beneath him was an avalanche chute and a vertical drop he doubted he could survive. To either side of him were rock walls. Above him was the section of steep mountainside he’d fallen down.

"I was afraid to sleep. If I loosened up the tension, I was going down the cliff," Hutchins said.