Missing hiker found alive after five weeks in wilderness reveals how he survived

A hiker who went missing successful the backwoods of British Columbia for much than 5 weeks has revealed however helium managed to survive.

Sam Benastick, 20, disappeared connected October 19 aft helium failed to instrumentality from a 10-day hiking travel successful Redfern-Keily Park successful the bluish Rocky Mountains.

Temperatures dropped to arsenic debased as -20C, and authorities called disconnected the hunt and rescue efforts aft astir a week of looking for him.

But Sam was recovered connected Tuesday by 2 radical who were walking on a way and recognised him arsenic the missing hiker.

He said helium stayed successful his car for a mates of days, earlier walking to a creek wherever helium camped for astir 10 to 15 nights.

Thankfully helium had a tarp, backpack and immoderate camping supplies connected him erstwhile helium went missing.

He past moved down the vale and built a campy successful a dried-out creek furniture earlier uncovering his rescuers and helium remains successful hospital.

Local inn proprietor Mike Reid said helium got to cognize Sam’s household arsenic they stayed astatine his constitution during the rescue efforts.

He said the hiker had chopped his sleeping backmost and wrapped it astir his legs to enactment warm.

He besides said Sam astir collapsed arsenic helium was placed successful the ambulance.

Prince George Search and Rescue hunt manager Adam Hawkins told the BBC: ‘Those are precise hard conditions for truly anyone to past in, particularly [with] constricted supplies and instrumentality and food.

‘Even idiosyncratic with rather a spot of acquisition would find that challenging.’

The rugged portion is hours distant from immoderate towns, and features low-lying hills, steep alpine cliffsides and glaciated terrain.

Mr Hawkins said helium is ‘intensely curious’ to larn astir wherever Sam was found, and what helium was doing to assistance pass aboriginal hunt and rescue operations.

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