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Kiwi conservationist Pete Bethune described the moment he was bitten by a snake in Costa Rica, admitting that “his life passed before my eyes” during the near-death experience.
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The Kiwi conservationist was on a patrol mission in the jungle when the snake bit him. Source: 1 NEWS
The founder of Earthcare was on a patrol mission in the jungle of Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica when a fer-de-lance snake, the deadliest snakes in Central America, bit him.
“I felt this blow on my calf and I knew immediately that it was a snake that turned around and this fer de spear snake crawled away from me and also took a good bite,” Bethune told 1 NEWS from her hospital bed .
“I got a ton of poison in me and immediately went into shock.”
Bethune said he crawled nearly two miles back to shore, but as his condition deteriorated, members of his team took him to the local coast guard ship where they took him to hospital.
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Pete Bethune crawled almost 3 km through dense jungle to seek help after being bitten in Costa Rica. Source: 1 NEWS
“I tried to get one of the guys to take me, but it was too steep,” Bethune said.
“I kept hitting my leg, I burned too much energy just holding onto this guy, so in the end I thought of this technique where I sat on my butt and used my hands to support my weight and I used my good leg, I held my bad leg in front me and we only covered those two and a half kilometers with just me crawling on my butt. ”
Bethune was injected with an antidote once she arrived at the hospital.
“I remember telling the guys to text my girls and tell them that I love them as if my life was flashing before my eyes,” Bethune said.
Larisa Kellett, a spokesperson for the nonprofit Earthrace of Bethune, told RNZ that Bethune faces a tough recovery journey.
“He has survived the night, they have given him antibiotics, but yes, his body is working very hard to fight the poison.”
