After a 240-Foot Fall and Days Alone in a Ravine, Teen Miraculously Returns Home to Recover

After a 240-Foot Fall and Days Alone in a Ravine, Teen Miraculously Returns Home to Recover


After plunging into a ravine and spending a month at the hospital, Missouri teen Cody Trenkle Jr. is finally home.

It was July when Trenkle, 13, biffed from his skateboard and fell 240 feet into a ravine in St. Francois County, according to KSDK-TV in St. Louis.

“I can’t really remember what happened after I fell off,” Trenkle said. “All I really know is that I flew off the board. But it was the grass’s fault, man, it wasn’t my fault.”

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Trenkle’s disappearance launched a search-and-rescue operation that lasted 80 hours as family, volunteers, and K-9s searched for the missing skateboarder.

They eventually found him in a ravine near Goose Creek Lake lying in a foot of water.

Dehydrated and afflicted with deep wounds, a

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