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02-19-2012, 10:37 AM
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#1 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Liberty, N.Y. Lower Catskill Mountains. Posts: 1,008
|  Talk about survival...!!!
Hi...
I had seen a few seconds of a story yesterday, and finally was able to pull it up on Yahoo.
02-18-12 BBC News Europe:
A Swedish man has survived being trapped in his snow-covered car for TWO MONTHS WITHOUT FOOD, police say.
The car was found Friday at the end of a forest track more than 1 km from a main road in northern Sweden
Police said the temps in the area had recently dropped to -22F.
(A lot more details are in the report).
NOTE:
"Pathfinder", who is now posting on this forum, is NOT Pathfinder1, which is me...!!
Last edited by Pathfinder1; 02-19-2012 at 11:15 AM.
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02-19-2012, 01:42 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Richton Park, Illinios Posts: 2,227
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I'd like to hear more about how he lasted so long, there's most likely some good info to learn from.
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02-19-2012, 04:31 PM
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#3 | | Forester
Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Minden, NV Posts: 761
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The news said that he rested almost all the time and decreased his metabolism and respiration rates. It might be useful to investigate this story further to see if we might learn something useful for survival training.
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02-19-2012, 07:29 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Richton Park, Illinios Posts: 2,227
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I think the mental stress would be the hardest part. After all that rest throughout the day, it wold make for some pretty long nights.
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02-19-2012, 08:17 PM
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#5 | | Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Cleburne, Texas Posts: 712
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Leather upholstery is worth every dollar.....just saying.
"As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free," - The Battle Hymn of the Republic | |
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02-20-2012, 05:44 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Liberty, N.Y. Lower Catskill Mountains. Posts: 1,008
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Hi...
Boy...two months without food. Talk about going Ultra Light...!!
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02-20-2012, 11:27 PM
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#8 | | Outdoor Member
Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Alabama Posts: 54
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That's one way to drop a few unwanted pounds.
If you sign up for a Survival School and it's cancelled for bad weather, you didn't miss much. | |
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02-21-2012, 10:53 AM
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#9 | | Hibernian
Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Florida Posts: 2,610
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Originally Posted by Gunny Webb  That's one way to drop a few unwanted pounds. | True, and while I could use dropping a few pounds, or a lot, it is not the way I would want to.
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02-27-2012, 12:15 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
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In the story I read the "experts" were saying that most likely his body went into a hibernation state like a bear, and that is how he was able to survive for so long in such extreme conditions.
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