| Saturday, 03 April 2010 08:22 | |
Ian Merringer wrote an article for the Globe and Mail retracing the ill-fated survivorist's route. We were there. The details about the route in the article are accurate. He would have had an extremely tough go through the deep snow pack. Cold, wet and no time to build a shelter the first night would have been miserable with a poor fire. His trek out (due North) was painful to follow as the post-hole steps became closer and closer together. Exhausted, cold and too weak to provide warmth and shelter he died of exposure (hypothermia) - likely over a period of time. The obvious route out in an emergency would have been East along the lake from his camp to the road. A snowmobile trail ran right past the point heading East-West on the lake. Hard packed and easy going... difficult to understand what he was thinking. Perhaps, 'practicing' his compass skills by going North as he had planned. Les Stround has some great advice. Listen to excerpts from Globe reporter Sarah Boesveld's conversation with TV's 'Survivorman' here. |