Two base-jumpers, who broke their backs after a near-fatal fall from 500-feet up, have taken a leap of faith and decided to start jumping again.
Austin Carey, 23, and Jay Rawe, 25, spent nearly a year in intensive recovery after they attempted — and failed — a risky double jump off a bridge in Idaho.
Austin Carey and Jay Rawe's BASE jump seemed to start out OK.Photo: Barcroft
The pair's jump turned bad when they became intertwined.Photo: Barcroft
"I remember standing on Austin's shoulders and getting ready while our friends held him there," Rawe told Barcroft Media. "Austin gave the 3-2-1 countdown and I remember falling backwards and trying to jump onto the handrail, missing it, hitting the diving board and starting to flip."
"I grabbed his pilot chute and tried to unwrap his bridle from around my leg," he explained. "I then landed in his parachute, looked up and saw the sky above me and his canopy flapping around. I kicked my feet over my head, fell out, and remember spinning at the ground as it got closer and knowing that we were gonna hit."
"Next thing I remember is waking up and sitting upright to catch the breath that had been knocked out of me. There were people all around, calling the emergency services, making sure we were staying still."
What the Utah native didn't know at the time was that he had suffered a burst fracture of the L1 vertebrae, damage to the T12 and L3 vertebrae and a sprained right ankle — in which the ligament was completely "torn off the bone."
Carey's injuries were even worse and doctors thought he would possibly never walk again. He had suffered a burst fracture of the L1 vertebrae, an incomplete spinal cord injury and his T12 vertebrae was almost split in half, according to Barcroft.
While the recovery process was "insanely" rough, the pair decided they weren't going to let a few broken bones stop them from doing what they loved. After months of intense physical therapy, they both broke out their parachutes and started jumping off stuff from great heights again.
Last month, Carey even found himself back at the same exact bridge in Idaho that landed him and his buddy in a hospital bed — almost a year to the day of the accident.
"It was such an amazing feeling to be back there after everything I had been through and all the work I have put into making my dream of jumping again a reality," he told Barcroft. "Because of what happened to Jay and me I've accepted death as a possibility – but I can't dream of a life without doing what I love."
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