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A 45-year-old man from southern Sweden was dug out alive on Friday after being snowed in to his car on a forest track since December 19 with no food and only a sleeping bag to keep warm.

Snowmobilers who spotted his vehicle near the northern city of Umea initially thought they had come across a car wreck until they dug their way to a window and saw a dangerously thin person living inside.

“Just incredible that he’s alive considering that he had no food, but also since it’s been really cold for some time after Christmas,” a rescue team member told the local newspaper Vasterbottens-Kuriren.

Normally humans would normally be able to survive for about four weeks without food, according to doctors at the Umea University Hospital, where the 45 year old is recovering.
Dr Stefan Branth, believe the man probably survived by eating snow and going into a dormant-like state.

“A bit like a bear that hibernates. Humans can do that,” he said. “He probably had a body temperature of around 31 degrees (Celsius) which the body adjusted to. Due to the low temperature, not much energy was used up.”

It remained unclear how the man found himself stuck in the snow to begin with.

Via Daily What