Missing Sam (20) found alive after 50 days in wilderness
Sam's family and friends from Canada still had little hope of finding him alive. But a miracle occurred when, after being missing for as many as 50 days, alone while hiking in the wilderness of British Columbia (Canada), he was suddenly spotted by two workers from an oil and gas company in the region on a forest road.
The workers immediately knew it was the 20-year-old missing boy. His disappearance had touched the entire region the past weeks. ‘I am Sam,’ he told the workers in a trembling voice. ‘He looked like a ghost,’ the workers describe the moment they found the boy after 50 days, in an interview for The Guardian.
‘He had a walking stick in each of his frozen hands. Around his legs he had wrapped a broken sleeping bag to protect himself from the biting cold. When we put him in our van so he could warm up and gave him our sandwiches because he was starving, he collapsed,’ the men say.
Sam is now doing relatively well; he never gave up hope of finding his way back. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police reported at a press conference on Thursday that Sam is being treated at a hospital in Fort Nelson. ‘He was suffering from frostbite and smoke intoxication caused by a fire in his makeshift shelter.’
(FVDV for Tagtik/Source: The Guardian - NBC/Illustration picture by StockSnap from Pixabay)