Journalist who failed to board flight home to Britain after solo hike in Norway is found ALIVE but seriously injured ‘after surviving five days on very little food’
A UK -based climate correspondent, who disappeared in bad weather during a solo walk in a remote national park in Norway, was found alive after spending about a week in the wild nature.
38 -year -old Alec Luhn is an American reporter working at several prestigious sales points, including the New York Times and Guardian.
Luhn’s trekking Folgefonna National Park is a city 40 miles northwest of Bergen to England after returning to England after returning to Monday was reported to be missing.
Last Thursday afternoon, his wife was heard with his wife Emmy Award -winning journalist Veronica Silchenko and told the New York Times that he had texted her route.
However, according to local rescuers, after a major research of the Scandinavian Park, the first day he identified was found with a serious leg injury he suffered.
Local Air Ambulance Service and Trauma Center President Geir Arne Sunde, ‘seriously injured, but not critically injured’ he said.
The reporter has managed to survive with very little food in his ordeal for days.
Savior said Luhn’s rescue was a miracle. Folgefonna and Red Cross Volunteer Operations Leadership Team President Stig Hope said: ‘I cannot remember that we found a living one after a lot.
Alec Luhn is an American correspondent working at a few prestigious sales points (in the picture).
Folgefonna National Park, 40 miles northwest of Bergen to England after returning to England after the reportedly missed on Monday.
Local media reported that he was on holiday with his sister at Nordic Nation and decided to take a four -day march.
‘The search does not always end like this – but today. It is a great relief for everyone who is part of this effort. ‘
Local media reported that he was on holiday with his sister at Nordic Nation and decided to take a four -day march from an open -air center in Ullensvan on the northern edge of the park on July 31.
The National Park is a deserted 136,000 acres of park, which hosts one of the largest glaciers in the country.
A voluntary search and rescue team of 30 people were sent to find him with dogs, drones and the police.
The operation was temporarily suspended in bad weather.
Tatjana Knappen said: ‘The weather conditions started to deteriorate at midnight. It didn’t make sense to continue searching in the mountains. ‘
Local Police said that the Pulitzer Center Ocean Reporting Network, a Climate Reporting Specialist, is a well -equipped experienced mountain wicker.
His wife said that he did not expect to hear from him for a few days due to a staining signal in the park. Silchenko, her husband’s solo walk is not unusual, he added.
However, he began to worry about him on Sunday and warned local officials after he was not returning to the return flight on Monday.
Before he was saved, he said: ‘I really want it back. I can’t sleep or eat properly. It’s hard not to know anything. ‘
Folgefonna National Park is known to be a popular challenge for hikers from all over the world to conquer the difficult land and admire its natural beauty.
The climate correspondent is not foreign to exotic destinations reported from the oil fields in Texas, the drought regions of Somalia and a research vessel in the North Sea.
