Summary

The elephants continued to topple trees but none were close enough to the fence to do any damage. One tall acacia tree was toppled and though it was a good distance away, it bounced when it fell and some of its branches snagged the wires. David volunteered to sneak inside the boma and cut the branches away from the wires. Lawrence enlisted the help of some of his rangers who aimed their rifles in case he was charged. Frankie caught sight of David and charged him. Lawrence radioed David to get out but the message didn’t go through.

Lawrence was just about to fire at the charging elephant’s brain when David was right next to him. He had scaled the eight-foot-high electrical fence. Miraculously he had survived the 8,000 volts that the fence put out by stepping around each of the live...