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Austistic Man Survives Weeks Wilderness - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 25th Jul, 2012 - 1:30am
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William LaFever
Austistic Man Survives Three Weeks In Wilderness
This is truly a miraculous case. This autistic man survived three weeks or more in the Utah desert. According to him, he survived by eating frogs and roots. The police said that when he was found he seemed to crave more human contact than actual food.
QUOTE ESCALANTE, Garfield County - When Utah Highway Patrol helicopter pilot Shane Oldfield describes finding William LaFever alive in the Escalante desert, the word "lucky" comes up often.
"It was really a needle in a haystack kind of thing," Oldfield said. "The stars aligned for him just right."
After going missing in the desert for three weeks, LaFever was spotted sitting in a river Thursday afternoon by Oldfield and Deputy Ray Gardner of the Garfield County Sheriff's Office as the two flew overhead. LaFever was out of food, dangerously emaciated and near death.
"He looked like he might have had only another day in him," Gardner said. "I couldn't believe it. We felt it was so unlikely we would find him."
LaFever, a 28-year-old man with autism, had called his father from Boulder in early June to say that some of his hiking gear had been stolen and he had run out of money. He told his father he would make his way to Page, Ariz., where he'd be able to receive a wire transfer.
Officials said LaFever decided to hike down the Escalante River to Lake Powell, where he would catch a boat ride to Page. Oldfield said the plan was all but impossible, especially considering the limited food and equipment that LaFever had with him.
"He set off without any food and he had been out three weeks," Oldfield said. "He couldn't walk. He couldn't crawl. He was down to rolling." Source 3
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What an experience for him, its a good thing that he at least thought to eat what he could find instead of just curling up in a ball waiting to die.
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