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You Will Survive: Struck By Lightning While Climbing

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Phil Broscovak was on a typical family climbing trip in 2005 when disaster struck. As he tried to untangle a rope before the weather turned, a bolt of lightning hit feet from his head and blew him from the wall. This is his story. 

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