Brit Surives Six Days On Frozen Ledge
A British mountain walker has survived after spending six days on a tiny mountain ledge after fracturing his hip in a slip on ice in the Picos de Europa range in northern Spain.
Posted: 17 February 2006
by Jon
A British mountain walker survived six days in freezing
temperatures with a broken hip in Spain's Picos de Europa mountains
reports the Independent.
Paul Beck, 33, reportedly slipped on ice injuring his hip then
spent the next six days sheltering on a tiny ledge in temperatures as
low as -10 C. At one point he was reduced to drinking his own urine
in his desperation to survive.
Although the cold had killed his battery rendering his mobile
phone useless, Beck was rescued by helicopter after his mother
reported him missing.
Full story at news.independent.co.uk
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