An Alaskan teenager recalled sustaining horrific injuries in a disastrous snowmobile accident earlier this month.
Fifteen-year-old Ryan Wheat, of Anchorage, spoke to KTUU about the snowmobile crash that sent him careening over a 30-foot ledge. Wheat broke his back in four places and had to be airlifted by rescue responders to a local hospital. “Me, my dad and my buddy were up [on the mountain] snowmachining,” he explained. “I was climbing over a hill. I was planning to let off and coast down the other side of it and when I got to the top…my track caught on a stump,” Wheat continued. “And it launched me about 15 feet up over the hill and I fell about 35, 40 feet.”
According to a GoFundMe set up by Wheat’s aunt, Nancy Beratto, the crash caused the teenager “to fly over a 30-foot ledge” on the side of the mountain. Wheat broke his back in four places and had to wait three hours before paramedics arrived to transport him to Anchorage’s Providence Alaska Medical Center…