Jim Davidson is a lucky man, having survived a drop into an 80-foot crevasse on Mount Rainier.

An episode of the television show "I Shouldn't Be Alive" told his tale in episodes that aired for over a week in mid-January on the Animal Planet & Animal Planet HD stations. The new episode is called "Killer Crevasse" and will be repeated over the next year (we will list any further upcoming showings as they are scheduled). The shows are always interspersed with different episodes of "I Shouldn't Be Alive," so check segment titles.

Davidson, 48, of Fort Collins, Colorado, was interviewed extensively, and a reenactment was filmed  in Chile by Darlow Smithson Productions, which made the well-regarded climbing feature film Touching the Void.

After the initial showing, one watcher, Ross Cunniff, wrote Davidson on Facebook, "I've seen you speak about it before, but it was still gripping from start to finish as if I was hearing it for the first time. Thanks for sharing your story with us, and I hope it inspires many people not to give up."

Killer Crevasse episode is in Season 4 of ISBA and it can be downloaded off the internet:

To download "Killer Crevasse" on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IYX19Q/ref=atv_dp_season


To download "Killer Crevasse" on XfinityTV

http://store.fancast.com/tv/episode/1742192202;jsessionid=1lq29z6z70ttr


To download "Killer Crevasse" on iTunes
http://www.clicker.com/tv/i-shouldnt-be-alive/Killer-Crevasse-1289224/

It is $1.99 in each of these places.

As of midday January 13, the day after the first showing,  Davidson had received about 300 messages through email, phone, Facebook and Twitter.  The notes were from various: "Some old college friends from the early 1980's contacted me, recent climbing partners, and some strangers," he told Rock and Ice.

He said he was nervous before the show aired. "When I saw the quick visual overview just as the show started, I knew that they had done an excellent and accurate job.  ... They did such a great job re-enacting the Rainer incident, that it scared me at times, and made me deeply sad when my friend and partner Mike [Price] passed away.  I sat with my family, friends and close climbing partners, and  kept saying, 'They got it right. They did it right.'"

A climber of nearly 30 years and professional adventure speaker for his company, Speaking of Adventure, Davidson spoke about his Rainier experience recently at an American Alpine Club breakfast at the Ouray Ice Fest.  He has climbed all over the world, including in Alaska, Argentina and Nepal, and summited Cho Oyu in Tibet. He is a member of the AAC and a mountain-rescue veteran, and teaches rock climbing as a volunteer to hundreds of schoolchildren annually. His memoir, The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier, co-written with Kevin Vaughan, is to be published in July.

The "I Shouldn't Be Alive" segment is also airing in the U.K. and Australia.

See http://www.speakingofadventure.com/about-jim/i-shouldnt-be-alive/