Typed comments will be lost if you are not logged in. We got to Big Sky, Montana from Whitewater, BC late last night the day after it had snowed 13″ in Montana. Aug. 28, 2020, 2:11 p.m. Here’s how to do it well.Test yourself on Summit County, Colorado’s steepest slope. Refuel » The Lotus Pad in The Meadows is delish. “I drove 20 hours straight, through blizzards, going 80 mph” to reach the Bozeman hospital.Two years apart, they had grown up fighting like brothers, but became close four years ago when their dad, “Stormin” Norman Rennspies, a former Air Force fighter pilot, was killed.When Nich was born, the family had been stationed at an air base in England.
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“He doesn’t remember any of that,” Erich said.Everything changed when the cardiologist, Dr. Simone Musco, implanted the pacemaker. “They’re so short and fragile.
“Eventually I told them if I’m going to die I want to die outside. It’s a (free) bus ride from the base and well worth the effort. Aug. 28, 2020, 2:36 p.m. Jackson Hole is rarely spoken of without mentioning Corbet’s couloir, so great is the fame of one mere run.
“He codes,” she said. They had cooled his body down to around 37 degrees to protect his brain and organs. The medical team brought him back to life, still in a coma.One of the worst moments, St. John said, was “seeing my son hooked up to the intubator, all the tubes coming out, and being frozen. It was a good sign, but there was no time to waste. They said he would need a pacemaker someday, or he might only live to age 13 or 18.At first his parents didn’t want to let him outside, Nich said. It stopped working a fourth time during the flight to Missoula, Erich said, either stopping or fluttering super fast, without making proper contractions to pump blood.“I definitely died and came back,” Nich said. Making the most out of what we have is what Erich and I try to do.”The brothers and their mother said they are grateful, especially to the Bozeman doctors and Big Sky Ski Patrol. Aug. 28, 2020, 11:59 a.m. That and the ski patrol. Again they had to shock his heart. “They killed it,” Erich said.“The people who helped my son really did a good job and need to be thanked,” St. John said.One lesson she took from this close call is that all the men in her family need to get their hearts tested. It’s definitely something I’ve always felt.”Whether climbing mountains, or having a close call on an adventure to Guatemala, getting hit on the head by robbers, he said, “something has always given me a little push in the right direction.”The brothers like to talk about the humorous side of the trip to Missoula.For two days at St. Patrick Hospital, Nich was hallucinating.“He went streaking buck naked down the halls,” Erich said, smiling. “I remember when they told me they weren’t testing me to go to outer space, I felt really sad.
They used a bag valve mask to push air into Nich’s lungs and compressed his chest 100 times a minute to keep blood pumping.The emergency call of an unresponsive adult male went out over the mountain. The Big Couloir. It’s everyone knowing their role, their gear.”The outcome often isn’t positive, veteran patrollers said.“Everything was in alignment that day,” Sheil said.Erich Rennspies, 30, was 800 miles away in sunny Prescott, Arizona, talking with some people about renovating a house, when he got a call from his younger brother’s cellphone.The voice said his brother had collapsed on the mountain at Big Sky and there was a “Do not resuscitate” request in his phone. From the time Nich went down and the call went out, to the time he was out of the toboggan and into a Big Sky Fire ambulance, Sheil said, took about 10 minutes.A helicopter from REACH Air Medical arrived at the fire station to fly Nich to Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital in Bozeman.“They saved his life, absolutely,” he said of the ski patrollers. “I’ve had a lot of close calls. If you want to feel like an eagle or a flying superhero, it’s high time you headed over … Nich’s roommate Rob Lovell quickly got the attention of patrollers Sam Keesler and Tim Gaar, who’d been warming up soup and spooling rope.Keesler, a patroller for three years, and Gaar, a five-year veteran, had never faced a life-and-death situation like this.“It was my first time seeing something like that, it was shocking,” Keesler recalled.Yet everyone on the patrol team was “fresh out of training,” said Steve Emerson, who runs the patrol’s medical program. That pretty much saved his life. I want to do fun things.”Despite the cardiologist’s advice, he played football and baseball, ran track, snowboarded and skied - without any problems with his heart muscle.“We just thought I’d grown strong enough,” Nich said.He loved hiking and rock climbing in Glacier National Park, fell in love with Montana and discovered Big Sky.