Man drops engagement ring from 118-foot bridge during proposal, but there's a happy ending

A tense connection connected a towering Michigan suspension span took a melodramatic crook erstwhile an engagement ringing slipped from a man’s fingers and plunged 118 feet into the snowfall below.

Trevor Van Camp had conscionable asked his long-time woman Danielle Jenkins to wed him nether the Christmas lights connected the SkyBridge astatine Boyne Mountain successful Northern Michigan erstwhile helium dropped the ringing done the grate arsenic helium knelt connected 1 knee.

"When I went to spell get the ringing retired of the box, caput you, I’m shaken up, I look down, similar not a bully idea, and yeah, I dropped the ring," Van Camp said.

After panicking for a second, the mates said they knew they had to effort to find the ring.

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Trevor Van Camp proposes to his long-time woman Danielle Jenkins nether the Christmas lights connected the SkyBridge astatine Boyne Mountain successful Northern Michigan. (Boyne Mountain Resort)

The mates got clearance from the edifice to spell down the snowy upland and spent 2 and a fractional hours searching with metallic detectors on with the resort’s nighttime displacement snowmaking supervisor, Pat Harper. 

The ringing slipped done Trevor Van Camp's fingers and fell disconnected the 118-foot suspension bridge. (Boyne Mountain Resort)

Harper said that conscionable arsenic the mates was preparing to springiness up the hunt astir 10 p.m., his metallic detector pinged. After utilizing his manus to determination a small snowfall and dirt, helium discovered the borderline of a ringing sticking retired of the ground.

"I benignant of sat determination for a infinitesimal and I was like, ‘There’s nary mode you conscionable recovered that," helium said.

Pat Harper, the resort’s nighttime displacement snowmaking supervisor, recovered the ringing utilizing a metallic detector conscionable arsenic the mates was giving up their hours-long search. (Boyne Mountain Resort)

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The mates was overjoyed that Harper had recovered the ring.

"I springiness large props and kudos to Pat for doing that for us, due to the fact that helium saved the day, helium truly did," Jenkins said. "It was an acquisition that we present have, a communicative to archer of our engagement."

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With the ringing present connected Jenkins’ digit and a amusive communicative to tell, the mates said they'd instrumentality to the edifice to decorativeness their locomotion crossed the SkyBridge.

"We'll astir apt travel backmost successful the wintertime to decorativeness our travel crossed the span with the lights and bask the afloat acquisition that we chopped abbreviated to find my ring," Jenkins said.