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A hiker climbing Montana's highest peak slipped and impaled himself on his trekking pole as he fell, then hiked six miles off the mountain along with two friends to get help, he says.
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A hiker climbing Montana's highest peak slipped and impaled himself on his trekking pole as he fell, then hiked six miles off the mountain along with two friends to get help, he says.
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David Cifaldi slipped and impaled himself on his trekking pole
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AIPROPX has consolidated 3 reports from 3 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Miracle escape for man who walked 10 miles with steel pole piercing his body.” The covered outlets are based across 2 regions — US and UK.
The earliest report in this entry came from The Independent (Jul 30, 2026, 09:53 UTC); the most recent came from AP News (Jul 30, 2026, 11:48 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 1 named entity is referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “trekking pole”.
2 statements are carried by only one outlet within this set and are not echoed by the others.
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