winter trees
© Sputnik/ Alexander Alpatkin
En russisk man delte sin kuldegysende beretning om, hvordan han undgik at fryse ihjel gennem fem dage i en skov med temperaturer der gik ned til minus 31 grader Celsius og undgik at sulte ved at spise grannåle fra fyrretræer.

En 31 årig mand fra Ruslands centrale Chelyabinsk region slap heldigt fra et ophold i minus 30 grade efter at være faret vil i en skov. For at overleve spiste han grannåle og i stedet for vand, spiste han sne.


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The man, named Andrey, went to the woods to cut trees but never found a way out.
"The first two days were ok," he says, "but I was hungry and thirsty, felt dehydrated, so I drank melted snow and ate pine tree spikes. I'd start a fire and sleep next to it to keep warm, that was my biggest fear to freeze in the woods. When they found me I wasn't thinking straight, I took off my hat and jacket and was just wearing a sweater."
Andrey was rescued by his friends who kept looking for him for several days. "If we were just 40 minutes late, he wouldn't have survived, he was in a pretty bad shape when we found him," one of his friends told Ren TV channel.

The man is now in hospital and miraculously has only suffered minor injuries including frost bite to one of his hands.

Russia's Chelyabinsk region has had temperatures plummet to 37C below zero this winter.