Unbroken: The Snowboard Life of Mark McMorris Page #3

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This one that we went

to, it's called Rainbow.

I was like, that's

perfect for me and Mark.

It's not super big, you're

just landing in snow.

You don't have to

jump over anything.

There's not a

cliff-face or anything.

So we built a take-off.

Ryan, Teeny and Torstein were

building a jump on the shelf.

There was a lot of

bad weather in Whistler.

The snow was coming in and out

and there's cloud-coverage.

On those days we set

up jumps or features

that are close to trees

just cause it helps

with definition when it's

not a full, nice sunny day.

I did a switchback five

and I spun to the right

and I hit the tree branch,

like just on the left.

You really gotta

spin to the right,

like even more than I did.

Then Mark went, he

tried a cab spin,

so he spun to the right,

pretty far to the right.

He landed in the perfect spot.

We each hit it once, both

kinda miss our trick but barely.

And then the clouds

came even thicker in,

so visibility was a huge

issue, so we waited.

And Craig's like you

know what, I'm over it.

I don't even wanna hit it again,

and then I was like okay, well

I'll just wait like an hour

and see if this weather

changes 'cause it clouded over.

Then it kinda did change.

Mark went up again.

(yells)

Okay, ready Mark?

So I'm takeoff,

but instead of

spinning to the right,

he spun to the left.

(dramatic string music)

(crash)

It was a direct hit.

Mark just exploded into

this pack of trees.

[Woman] Did he make it?

[Man] Hear that?

[Woman] No.

[Man] Mark!

And just like silence,

and there's like nothing,

so I'm like oh, oh

sh*t, here we go.

(suspenseful music)

(Marc cries out)

You don't know if it's

a spinal chord injury

or anything like that,

so you don't wanna

move him really at all,

but you have to keep him warm.

So, get him into

a safe position.

This is not good.

We need to keep calm here and

just assess the situation.

Craig was the one with

the satellite phone.

Luckily he brought that, so he

started calling heli-rescue.

Gotta get him off the snow

cause hypothermia could

set in (snaps) like that.

[Torstein] Mark,

how's your temperature?

Hang in there, buddy.

[Craig] Yeah,

you got this, Mark.

[Torstein] Help's on the

way, help's on the way.

We got the heli.

[Craig] The

heli's coming, Mark.

You know, I could see

his jaw was super broken

cause hanging off,

blood everywhere.

Don't know if the blood

is coming from the inside.

He was lying there,

waiting for the helicopter.

He was so messed

up, so much trauma.

So a half an hour went

by, couldn't hear anything.

An hour went by and

Mark's starting to fade

and vomiting a lot of blood

and like really dark blood.

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