Great story - I am just going to excerpt a very little bit here - go to the site and read the whole thing. From Today I Found Out:
THAT TIME A GUY PARACHUTED ONTO DEVILS TOWER… AND THEN MADE NATIONAL NEWS WHEN NO ONE COULD FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET HIM DOWN
Nestled safely in the bosom of the Bear Lodge Mountains of Wyoming is a large rock formation known simply as Devils Tower. A popular landmark and the first recognized United States National Monument (declared such by President Theodore Roosevelt on September 24, 1906), the imposing rocky butte was at the forefront of a bizarre media frenzy in 1941 when a parachutist became hopelessly stranded atop it.
And the reason for the stranding?
With seemingly the hard part out of the way, Hopkins stood and waited for his pilot, Joe Quinn, to throw him a specially prepared pack containing everything he’d need to descend the tower.
Hopkins then watched helpless as the supply pack sailed through the air and bounced straight off the edge of the tower, stranding him without supplies over 1000 feet (over 300 metres) in the air.
He wound up being stuck up there for five days during some cold weather.
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