Trekking pole

It's an amazing story.

Um, the headline is a Montana nurse impaled by trekking pole, hiked 10 miles to safety using his nursing instinct.

So David Cofaldi is a Montana wound care nurse.

Former ER nurse was impaled.

I'm telling you, if you want to see these images, it is a little bit graphic.

I mean, there's no, there's really no blood.

Didn't look like he was honestly really bleeding, but it is, you know, a little bit graphic to see anything impaling somebody, um, But he was impaled through the torso by his own trekking pole on Granite Peak on July 20th, 2026.

He then hiked roughly 10 miles out with the pole still in place.

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That sounds so lonely.

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I'm just trying to suck up to you, brother.

You know what? It's not going to impact your hiking pole score.

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It's time for the hiking poll.

That was the poop that broke the pit toilets back.

That last one, that was it.

Now this is a, this is not an official question of the hiking pole, but since we're on the topic, I have to know.