Mount Bowen is a

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located on Hinchinbrook Island, off the north east coast of

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. It rises out of the

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. On this mountain in April 1997, hiker

Warren MacDonald Warren Macdonald (born 1965 ) is an Australian environmentalist, explorer, mountain climber, motivational speaker, and writer. Macdonald was born in Melbourne. In April 1997 he was climbing Mount Bowen on Hinchinbrook Island when a giant boulder ...

became trapped beneath a one-ton slab of stone in a freak rock fall. Two days later he was rescued, only to undergo the amputation of both his legs at mid thigh. His book ''One Step Beyond'' chronicles his attempt at climbing Mount Bowen. The accident is the subject of the episode

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, part of the

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series,

I Shouldn't Be Alive ''I Shouldn't Be Alive'' is a documentary television series made by Darlow Smithson Productions, a UK-based production company, that featured accounts of individuals or groups caught in life-threatening scenarios away from civilization in natu ...

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Bowen Bowen may refer to: Places Australia * Bowen, Queensland, a town * Bowen Hills, Queensland, a suburb ** Bowen Hills railway station, a railway station in Bowen Hills ** Bowen Park, Brisbane, a park in Bowen Hills * Bowen Bridge, crossing the Derw ...

Landforms of Far North Queensland {{Queensland-geo-stub

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