Reader\'s Digest Australia - 05.2019

READER’S DIGEST May• 2019 | 39 this reduces your ability to regain your balance if you stumble. Remember that your balance can a ...

Life’s Like That SEEING THE FUNNY SIDE 40 | May• 2019 There’s nothing like a computer problem to make one tear out one’s hair. A ...

PASSWORD SAVVY SCENE: A bar ME: What’s the Wifi password? BARTENDER: You need to buy a drink first. ME: OK, I’ll have a Coke. BA ...

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When the ice suddenly gave way, a scientist plunged 20 metres into a crevasse. Would it become his grave? TRAPPED INSIDE A GLACI ...

TRAPPED INSIDE A GLACIER 44 | May• 2019 OHN ALL unzipped his tent, poked his shaggy blond head out into the thin alpine air, and ...

READER’S DIGEST May• 2019 | 45 hanging over a chasm. He had landed on an ice shelf suspended above the blackness. Overhead was a ...

TRAPPED INSIDE A GLACIER 46 | May• 2019 crushed vertebrae. His right arm was useless, and the ribs on his right side were shatte ...

May• 2019 | 47 He was free-climbing inside a crack in the mountain, trying not to dwell on the fact that one misstep would send ...

TRAPPED INSIDE A GLACIER 48 | May• 2019 the walls and finding his footing, each step taking excruciating min- utes as he tried t ...

READER’S DIGEST May• 2019 | 49 Cole and her husband, Carl Schmitt, had co-founded the American Climb- er Science Program with Al ...

50 | May• 2019 BUMBLEBEES SIXTH SENSE A bumblebee generates a positive electrical charge as it flaps its wings and transfers som ...

The amazing abilities these creatures possess may seem like something straight out of a comic book, but they’re very real READER ...

52 | May• 2019 10 ANIMALS WITH SUPER POWERS CUTTLEFISH INVISIBILITY Cuttlefish have large brains which they use to perform a ran ...

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Laughter THE BEST MEDICINE 54 | May• 2019 top hat, pudding on my white tie, pudding on my tails.” SUBMITTED BY GEORGE KLOSS Q:Wh ...

May• 2019 | 55 ILLUSTRATIONS: GETTY IMAGES; CARTOON: HARLEY SCHWADRON Nailing the Job The village blacksmith finally found an ap ...

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May• 2019 | 57 ILLUSTRATIONS: TALLULAH FONTAINE I t was the summer of 1936. The Olympic Games were being held in Berlin. Because ...

LESSONS OF FRIENDSHIP 58 | May• 2019 beyond the take-off board for a foul. On the second jump, I fouled even worse.Did I come 60 ...