Jessica Bruinsma – Pics of injured hiker, Jessica Bruinsma, who used her sports bra to get rescued from a German mountain, but it was not a 36-DD bra as reported elsewhere.

Jessica Bruinsma injured and alone, used her sports bra to get help

An injured Jessica Bruinsma hooked her bra to a mountainside supply line and alerted rescuers to her whereabouts just as they were giving up the three-day search for the lost hiker.

The white sports bra has become the talk of the Berchtesgaden area of Germany near the Austria border.

“It certainly beats sending up a flare,” one rescue worker told reporters. “She hadn’t been wearing much when she started on her walk and she ended up with even less on.”

A worker on the timber cable in the region alerted police when he found Bruinsma’s bra hooked to the cable.

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The incident inspired bloggers and wags, one of whom wrote to Backpacker, “Maybe we should consider adding Victoria’s Secret to the Ten Essentials” — the list of 10 things all hikers should bring with them on backcountry hikes.

Jessica likely will be in Europe another week and a half, recovering from her injuries, her sister said. “She’s OK, but she’s bruised up pretty bad,” Elana said. “She has four broken ribs and one of them punctured her lung. She probably needs an operation on her leg because of the nerve and tissue damage.”

Elana said her sister was in Germany to help a friend run a hostel “literally in the middle of nowhere.

“She’d gone for a walk last Sunday night and didn’t come back,” Elana said.

“I talked to her yesterday. She said she’d kind of gotten lost that first day and then she tried to climb down something and fell 20 feet.”

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She noticed a supply carrier that ran down the mountain, but for two days it never moved.

It rained hard the second night she was stuck on the crag, “so she’d taken off her clothes to let them dry,” Elana said. “She was going to use her bra for a sling because she’d dislocated her shoulder.”

But then, the supply line began to move, and she got an idea.

“I asked her if she could have gotten in it, but she said it wasn’t big enough for that.”

So, Jessica attached the bra to the supply line and hoped for the best. She told rescuers she hung out on the crag, drank water and ate biscuits.

After the worker spotted the bra and alerted police, rescuers changed their area of focus and reached her in a matter of hours.

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Jessica “does all kinds of things outdoors — she hikes, she bikes, she does marathons, triathlons,” Elana said. “She was a ski instructor, she’s led hikes in the back country. ”

Has she always been resourceful?

“Obviously, we know she is now,” Elana said. “She really is a very low-maintenance person compared to the rest of us.”

Jessica Bruinsma’s mother happened to be in France on a hiking trip, and as soon as she heard the news, she raced to Germany.

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Elana is looking forward to seeing her sister Jessica, hugging her, and getting more details of the great underwear ordeal.

“She certainly isn’t a 36-DD,” Elana said, referencing earlier press reports that endowed her sister with busty measurements. “She’s a tiny little thing.”

Regardless, “It certainly is going to be a famous bra,” Elana said.

“We’re going to have a party for her every June 19, and give her some new bras,” Elana Bruinsma, said this morning.

Her grandmother said Jessica used the bra at first as a sling for her arm and that she also had more than a hundred ticks removed. She’s expected to make a full recovery from her injuries.

And that’s the latest news on the sports bra rescue of Jessica Bruinsma.

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