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I teach field geology at university level so I got some good ones.
Most recent:
>field trip in canyon in buttfuck nowhere Australia
>20 students, 3 teaching staff
>doing geology on cliff faces, semi-trail and semi-fixed chains
>single file for ~200 m of cliff and steep face
>other staff at bottom of the cliff radio's up there's a random hiker passing the students on the cliff face
>normally this area is empty this type of year as it's literally the middle of goddamn nowhere
>okay.jpg
>hiker getting shitty at students forces his way up to the top
>I'm at the top of the cliff watching this guy be a general asshole
>no pack, no radio, no hat, just a clip on 1L metal bottle on his belt
>it's 35 goddamn degrees
>looks pissed off, red in the face, sweating like a motherfucker
>guy almost at the top of the cliff now, crossing chain ledge
>suddenly he slumps and collapses
>starts tumbling down the face
>students are screaming
>dislodges a bunch of rocks as he falls and narrowly avoids hitting students further down the cliff
>SOMEHOW a group of students ~15 m down managed to grab him as he tumbled
>pull him off to the side
>bloody and scraped up but otherwise somehow unharmed
>passes in and out of consciousness and rambling nonsense clearly heatstroke
>blearily starts demanding water and food which we give him
>not well enough to stand let alone get back down the cliff
>stuck up on the cliff with students who were unable to safely pass this sack of shit whilst the rest of the group retreats back to camp
ended up radio'ing the ranger who then got SES which took about 4 hours to arrive. turns out he was a local, diabetic, just figured he'd go out for a day hike on one of the most remote trails in the region with no supplies, no phone, no radio. if we weren't there that'd guy would be pulp at the bottom of a cliff.
fucker didn't even say thank you once.
