How does crouching with your heels touching and hands on your head protect you from lightning?
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It doesn’t. The idea was that there’s less surface area if you’re crouching on the balls of your feet and you’re lower to the ground. But I’ve been on mountains in lightning storms with my hair sticking up do to all the static electricity and with the air all around me crackling (not lightning but just static electricity like pops), and the last thing in my mind was to get into the lightning crouch. I sprinted out there as fast as I could go with all my gear on and got safely to lower ground where big trees were around to absorb the strikes instead of me.
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