For day le marque struggled through hunger,freezing temperatures,and12-foot deep snow. By the eighthday,le marque was so weak and his legs were so frostbitten that he could no longer walk or even stand.He was in such bad conition that he began hallucinating that his situation was just a video game. He recalls thinking,"the game is over let's reset it.I give up.Le marque was at the point of exhaustion and death when he was found by rescuers in a helicopter.Although he lost his legs to frostbite,le marque survival experience left him with more of an appetite for life than ever before.After being fitted with artificial limbs,he vowed to go snowboarding again. Only in the future,he plans to be much better prepared.
Occasionally,some owe their survival not to struggle,but to simple luck. Take the startling case of mitsutaka uchikoshi. One ice-cold october day in2006,uchikoshi had been at a party on a mountain in western japan. After wandering off into a field on his own, uchikoshi tripped, hit his head,and was knocked unconscious. As uchikoshi remembers, " I was in a field,and I felt very comefortable. That's my last memory." He remained unconscious in almost-freezing temperatures without food or water for more than three weeks.
When he was found in the freezing field 24 days after his fall,he did not seem to be breathing and had no detectable pulse. His body temperature was nearly 30 degrees below normal, and his organs had nearly shut down. Doctors assumed he was dead. Yes something incredible happened while he was at kobe city general hospital:he woke up even more incredibly,uchikoshi body went into a state similar to hibernation. In hibernation,the body temperature of an animal is lowered and its breathing and heart rate slow down. Hibernation reduces the need for food and protects animals from damage to the brain and other organs.
Stories like these remind us that even when we are in a situation that seems impossible,we should never give up hope after all,there is always a chance that you will succed-against the odds!