Man Survives Three Days in Greenland's Arctic
In a feat to match Han Solo and Luke Skywalker's overnight bivy in the ice desert of the planet Hoth, an American contractor survived three days alone atop Greenland’s Arctic icesheet, 260 miles from the nearest land.
Without a Tauntaun to kill and crawl inside, the man was forced carve a shelter into the two mile thick slab of ice and ceaselessly move his body to keep the blood pumping through his limbs. Temperatures fell to ten below zero.
On the evening of April 15 the as yet unnamed 38 year old heavy equipment operator for a National Science Foundation logistics contractor disappeared from the NSF’s Summit research station, a dot atop the peak of Greenland’s massive, empty icesheet located near the center of the island.
A slew of international agencies and rescue services, including the Danish Air Force, the US National Guard, and even NASA, mobilized to find the man, who was recovered on April 18 shaken but alert.
The NSF has not released details about how the man became lost or how far he was from the Summit station when he was rescued. He is currently recovering in a hospital in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital.
--Sean Brander
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