Missing hiker found after surviving more than a month in Canada’s snowy wilderness
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Hiker Sam Benastick was found by two men on Tuesday after spending more than a month in the snowy British Columbia wilderness.
It started out as a regular Tuesday morning for two men heading out on a trail for work in the backcountry of Canada’s northeast British Columbia when they spotted another man trudging out of the wilderness. They recognized him as the lost hiker Sam Benastick, who had been reported missing more than a month ago, on October 19, according to the Northern Rockies Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). He was reportedly found on a service road, supporting himself with two walking sticks and a cut-up sleeping bag wrapped around his legs for warmth. Benastick was reported missing after failing to return home on October 17 from a 10-day camping trip in Redfern-Keily Park, CNN affiliate CBC News reports. Benastick told police he initially stayed in his car for a couple of days before walking to a creek near a mountain, where he camped for another 10 to 15 days. He then moved down the valley and built a shelter in a dried-out creek bed, RCMP said. It was from there that Benastick made his way to where the two workers found him.
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