American hiker rescued in Alps using sports bra as SOS

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AP

BERLIN - An American hiker stranded in the Bavarian Alps for nearly three days was rescued after using her sports bra as a signal, police in southern Germany said Monday.

Berchtesgaden police officer Lorenz Rasp said that he helped lift 24-year-old Jessica Bruinsma of Colorado state to safety by helicopter on Thursday after she attracted the attention of lumberjacks by attaching her sports bra to a cable used to move timber down the mountain.

"She's a very smart girl, and she acted very resourcefully," said Rasp. "She kept her shirt and jacket for warmth, but thought the sports bra could work as a signal."

An Alpine rescue team, including five helicopters and 80 emergency workers, had been searching for Bruinsma since she went missing June 16 after losing her way in bad weather while hiking with a friend near the Austrian border.

She fell 16.4 feet to a rocky overhang, where she spent the next 70 hours on the narrow ledge, sustained by water that she found by breaking into a supply box on the ledge.

She badly bruised a leg and dislocated a shoulder in the fall, and the cliff was too isolated for her to climb free, Rasp said.

Rasp said the cable was only within reach because the timber transport system was out of service. When a repairman restored the line on Thursday, the cable car started moving up the mountain and Bruinsma's bra reached the worker at the base. He knew of the missing hiker and immediately called police.

Rasp said his team followed the cable line up the cliff side in a helicopter and found Bruinsma standing on the ledge, waving with her good arm. After circling once, they lowered a winch to Bruinsma and lifted her aboard.

"She did so well because she is in very good shape," Rasp said. "She has been training for a marathon - her goal is to finish in 3 hours and 10 minutes."

Bruinsma told Rasp that she has scrapped plans to stay in Berchtesgaden to learn German and plans to return home to Colorado Springs with her parents. He said she still plans to run the marathon, if she recovers in time to keep training.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/...bra0623-ON.html

[Sister Fracas 5]

I'm waiting for the "this thread is useless without photos" folks....

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AP

BERLIN - An American hiker stranded in the Bavarian Alps for nearly three days was rescued after using her sports bra as a signal, police in southern Germany said Monday.

Berchtesgaden police officer Lorenz Rasp said that he helped lift 24-year-old Jessica Bruinsma of Colorado state to safety by helicopter on Thursday after she attracted the attention of lumberjacks by attaching her sports bra to a cable used to move timber down the mountain.

"She's a very smart girl, and she acted very resourcefully," said Rasp. "She kept her shirt and jacket for warmth, but thought the sports bra could work as a signal."

An Alpine rescue team, including five helicopters and 80 emergency workers, had been searching for Bruinsma since she went missing June 16 after losing her way in bad weather while hiking with a friend near the Austrian border.

She fell 16.4 feet to a rocky overhang, where she spent the next 70 hours on the narrow ledge, sustained by water that she found by breaking into a supply box on the ledge.

She badly bruised a leg and dislocated a shoulder in the fall, and the cliff was too isolated for her to climb free, Rasp said.

Rasp said the cable was only within reach because the timber transport system was out of service. When a repairman restored the line on Thursday, the cable car started moving up the mountain and Bruinsma's bra reached the worker at the base. He knew of the missing hiker and immediately called police.

Rasp said his team followed the cable line up the cliff side in a helicopter and found Bruinsma standing on the ledge, waving with her good arm. After circling once, they lowered a winch to Bruinsma and lifted her aboard.

"She did so well because she is in very good shape," Rasp said. "She has been training for a marathon - her goal is to finish in 3 hours and 10 minutes."

Bruinsma told Rasp that she has scrapped plans to stay in Berchtesgaden to learn German and plans to return home to Colorado Springs with her parents. He said she still plans to run the marathon, if she recovers in time to keep training.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/...bra0623-ON.html

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Pics please.

Because you can never see too many boobies.

[Nagishkaw 510]

Riiiiiiicooooooooooola!

[Sister Fracas 5]

Pics please.

Because you can never see too many boobies.

My guess is, if she's all athletic-like, she prolly has teeny boobies...

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Pics please.

Because you can never see too many boobies.

My guess is, if she's all athletic-like, she prolly has teeny boobies...

That's ok

[Sister Fracas 5]

Riiiiiiicooooooooooola!

that's what the cable-car repairman said when he found the bar... LOL

[MrsCat 6]

maybe not small teeny ones - if she could signal someone with her bra, my assumption is that its big - real big!

edit: I should have said they're big

Edited June 23, 2008 by cattattude

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maybe not small teeny ones - if she could signal someone with her bra, my assumption is that its big - real big!

edit: I should have said they're big

now i really wanna see pics

[Sinergy 3]

Riiiiiiicooooooooooola!

omg too good

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

Pics please.

Because you can never see too many boobies.

My guess is, if she's all athletic-like, she prolly has teeny boobies...

there's a lesson here for you, fracas. if you're lost in the woods, wave your bra around to attract lumberjacks.

[MrsCat 6]

Pics please.

Because you can never see too many boobies.

My guess is, if she's all athletic-like, she prolly has teeny boobies...

there's a lesson here for you, fracas. if you're lost in the woods, wave your bra around to attract lumberjacks.

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Jessica Bruinsma, 24, of Colorado Springs.

...more to the story...

Elana said her sister was in Germany to help a friend run a hostel "literally in the middle of nowhere.

"She'd gone for a walk last Sunday night and didn't come back," Elana said.

"I talked to her yesterday. She said she'd kind of gotten lost that first day and then she tried to climb down something and fell 20 feet."

She noticed a supply carrier that ran down the mountain, but for two days it never moved.

It rained hard the second night she was stuck on the crag, "so she'd taken off her clothes to let them dry," Elana said. "She was going to use her bra for a sling because she'd dislocated her shoulder."

But then, the supply line began to move, and she got an idea.

"I asked her if she could have gotten in it, but she said it wasn't big enough for that."

So, Jessica attached the bra to the supply line and hoped for the best. She told rescuers she hung out on the crag, drank water and ate biscuits.

After the worker spotted the bra and alerted police, rescuers changed their area of focus and reached her in a matter of hours.

Jessica "does all kinds of things outdoors — she hikes, she bikes, she does marathons, triathlons," Elana said. "She was a ski instructor, she's led hikes in the back country. "

Has she always been resourceful?

"Obviously, we know she is now," Elana said. "She really is a very low-maintenance person compared to the rest of us."

Jessica's mother happened to be in France on a hiking trip, and as soon as she heard the news, she raced to Germany.

Elana is looking forward to seeing her sister, hugging her and getting more details of the great underwear ordeal.

"She certainly isn't a 36-DD," Elana said, referencing earlier press reports that endowed her sister with busty measurements. "She's a tiny little thing."

Regardless, "It certainly is going to be a famous bra," Elana said.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008...yahoo_headlines

Edited June 23, 2008 by Jabberwocky

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Regardless, "It certainly is going to be a famous bra," Elana said.

so that's victoria's secret!

Edited June 23, 2008 by charlesandnessa