Sam Benastick, 20, was found alive after surviving over five weeks in Redfern-Keily Provincial Park, northeastern British Columbia, following a 10-day camping trip that went awry. Temperatures plummeted and snow fell during his ordeal.
Sam Benastick was reported missing Oct. 17 after failing to return home from a 10-day trip in the remote Redfern-Keily Provincial Park , about 250 kilometres northwest of Fort St. John.·Sam Benastick has been found after surviving more than five weeks in the woods of northeastern B.C. A hiker who went missing in B.C.'s backwoods has been found after surviving more than five weeks in a remote park in B.C.'s northeast as snow fell and temperatures plunged.
"Right now, I ... it's amazing. I've got three kids myself, and for him to find his son, it's just amazing," Reid told Sarah Penton, the host of CBC'sReid said that he had spoken to the man who found Benastick and learned the hiker was now in Fort Nelson Hospital awaiting his parents. "This morning, they had just started driving, and they said, 'The hell is that person doing walking on this road?' And he had two sticks, one in each hand, and it was Sam."
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