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 60 days without food - survival story
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runningclouds
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Vancouver, BC
Canada

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 Posted - 02/20/2012 :  3:26 PM  Show Profile  Reply to this posting
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/20/cold-weather-could-have-saved-swedish-man-trapped-in-snow-covered-car-for-two-months/

2 months! No food, just snow and ice for hydration.

KARVITK
Advanced Member

Happy go lucky, plaid wearin, postholin, safeway gaitor sportin, old-school film shootin, giver of many regards

Abbotsford, B.C.
Canada

13598 Posts

 Posted - 02/20/2012 :  7:29 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I saw that article, that is pretty amazing. There is mention of the igloo effect of him keeping warm in the car, plus some reference to hibernation.

K

runningclouds
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Vancouver, BC
Canada

520 Posts

 Posted - 02/21/2012 :  11:07 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Pictures of his car, looks very inhospitable.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103339/Swedish-man-Peter-Skyllberg-survives-frozen-car-months-eating-handfuls-snow.html

KARVITK
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Happy go lucky, plaid wearin, postholin, safeway gaitor sportin, old-school film shootin, giver of many regards

Abbotsford, B.C.
Canada

13598 Posts

 Posted - 02/22/2012 :  10:30 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Guess he was tired of living:

..............Police initially thought he was a nature lover who had become trapped in the snow while on an expedition to photograph elk.
But now it emerges there was a court judgment against him in December because of debts totaling £150,000.
Neighbours of his in the town of Orebro in central Sweden said he had also broken up with his girlfriend and had lost contact with his father and other family members 20 years ago.
'We now have to wait until he is better to try to find out what really was in his mind,' said police officer Ebbe Nyberg.


Was he waiting for a slow end...

J

Edited by - KARVITK on 02/22/2012 10:30 PM

runningclouds
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Vancouver, BC
Canada

520 Posts

 Posted - 03/02/2012 :  05:53 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Maybe he was not trapped...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/9106027/Swedish-man-was-not-trapped-in-his-car.html

sgRant
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Vancouver
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 Posted - 03/02/2012 :  2:03 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Anyone who knows how much frost accumulates inside a tent during one night of winter camping would have wondered why there was so little frost inside a car that someone supposedly spent so long inside.
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