| Mike Couillard and his son endure the agony of the cold at 7000 feet when they get lost for ten days on a ski trip in Turkey. What happens to the body in these extreme conditions? Mike Couillard and his ten-year-old son Matt are on a ski trip in Turkey, when they get lost in heavy snow, 7000 feet up a mountain. After a long trek through deep snow trying to get off the mountain, Mike realises they need to spend the night in the open and they rig up a bivouac. But Mike and Matt would have to survive ten more days in the cold before being rescued. In that time, with only a handful of sweets to share between them, and with nothing to drink but melted snow, Mike and Matt had to endure the hope of rescue as they saw search helicopters overhead, and then the agony as they werent spotted. They also had to suffer the pain and the effects of frostbite. Realising they would never be found, Mike had to make the hardest decision of his life. Should he stay with his son and wait for inevitable death, or leave his son on the mountainside, and set off on his own to get help. He left his son, and forced his body down the mountain. Eventually he came across a hut but his hopes were dashed when he found it empty. For two days Mike lay in the hut, crippled by the agony of his frostbite, unable to get back to his son because of exhaustion. Finally, woodsmen discovered him, and quickly scrambled up the mountain to find Matt, amazingly still alive. How much longer could they have survived? Dr ... |
