It started out as a regular Tuesday morning for two men heading out on a trail for work in the backcountry of Canada\u2019s northeast British Columbia when they spotted another man trudging out of the wilderness. <\/p>\n
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). <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
The men took Benastick to a local hospital, where police attended to him and confirmed his identity, said RCMP. <\/p>\n
\u201cFinding Sam alive is the absolute best outcome. After all the time he was missing, it was feared that this was would not be the outcome,\u201d said Cpl Madonna Saunderson, BC RCMP Communications. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got three kids and five grandkids. So I know what they were going through,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Reid kept in touch with the family who have been reunited at the hospital with Benastick. They told him their son nearly collapsed when he was found by the two workers on the road and was propping himself up on two sticks because he was \u201cso weak.\u201d <\/p>\n
According to the RCMP multiple search and rescue teams had been looking for him along with the Canadian Rangers and \u201cmany local volunteers with extensive back country knowledge of the area.\u201d <\/p>\n
Benastick\u2019s uncle, Al Benastick, described his nephew as an avid outdoorsman who was suffering from \u201cfrostbite and some smoke inhalation\u201d in an interview with CBC News. <\/p>\n
It was \u201ckind of unbelievable\u201d his nephew survived, he said. \u201cImagine being out there, being that cold, for that long.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
It started out as a regular Tuesday morning for two men heading out on a trail for work in the backcountry of Canada\u2019s 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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}