Man hikes 6 hours after impaling himself with hiking pole

Man hikes 6 hours after impaling himself with hiking pole  CNN

David Cifaldi was scaling Montana's tallest mountain with his two friends when he lost his footing on the rocky terrain and as he fell his trekking pole penetrated his body

David Cifaldi was hiking up Granite Peak, Montana’s tallest mountain, last week when he slipped and fell on one of his trekking poles. A wound nurse, he went into survival mode.

GoFundMe A Montana man walked 10 miles to safety with a trekking pole speared through his torso after slipping near the summit of the state’s highest mountain. David Cifaldi fell on one of his poles close to the top of the 12,803-foot Granite Peak during a hike with two friends. “By the time I rolled over, I kind of kn

"I feel very lucky," David Cifaldi recalled. "A couple inches the other way, and this would be a different story."