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.