This is amazing -Stranded man survives 10 days on snow; friend dies

[malaise]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46904166/ns/us_news-life/#.T3YT9NVwSnQ
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A 76-year-old diabetic Colorado man survived 10 days in the remote Nevada desert by melting snow and using skills he learned as a Boy Scout, but a friend who was with him and ventured away to get help died.

James Klemovich and Laszlo Szabo, 75, went to scope out some mines in the state when their car became stuck on a lonely road with no cell phone service, Klemovich's wife, Joanne, said Thursday.

The men tried unsuccessfully to dislodge the car, and lit flares and started fires in hopes somebody would see them in northwestern Nevada's Pershing County, an area where less than 7,000 people are spread over 6,000 square miles.

James Klemovich has diabetes, wears a pacemaker and had a triple bypass heart surgery, his wife said.
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Survival skills are key!!

[Blue_Tires]

1. scope mines? they are miners??

what kind of mines?

[Sedona]

2. With gold prices so high now

people are panning for gold again in Northern Arizona. Wouldn't surprise me if they were out there looking for gold. Cost one of them his life.