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More than 20 days isolated and outdoors, surrounded by snow, with temperatures below 20 degrees below zero. The fight for the survival of Tyson Steele, 30, has concluded with a happy ending thanks to the fact that a few days ago a helicopter of the rescue forces of Alaska saw the great letters 'SOS' that he himself had excavated. They were his last hope.

His dramatic adventure, according to his testimony, began on December 17 or 18. Nor has he been able to specify the date because he had been living in a remote area of ​​Susitna Valley since September, about 30 kilometers from the nearest town, Skwentna. At dawn, while sleeping, the fire from the stove with which it was heated reached the ceiling of its cabin. Tyson went outside, which was 15 below zero, barely wearing it, but could not rescue his dog Phil, who died in the fire. "I thought I was not inside, and I was there, I have no words for that pain."

"Everything I had was in that cabin," Tyson Steele told Ken Marsh, the man who first narrated his rescue. Despite his attempts, he could not quell the flames, which devoured almost all his belongings. The first nights he slept in a cabin dug in the snow. Then he was building a slightly wider shelter where he has survived temperatures that sometimes reached 26 below zero.

Tyson had no choice but to start rationing the few cans of food he had managed to recover. If I consumed a couple per day, I could take a month. Over the days he began to wonder when his parents were going to miss him, whom he used to call every week. He could no longer do it: his cell phone, which he could not charge, had become an unusable device.

The survivor considered reaching the nearest population but only had a few hours of daylight. "I walked in that direction, but there was more than a meter and a half of snow and my snow boots had burned. I only had others and a pair of old socks full of holes, it took me several days to advance a quarter of a mile . " Under these conditions, and assuming that his parents would have given the alarm, Tyson dedicated his efforts to digging the letters 'SOS' in a clearing between trees. He was sure that any possible rescue could only reach him by air. He used the ashes of the fire to dye black every day and make his request for help more visible.

Without maps or special training, Tyson focused on resisting. He managed to warm up briefly every day thanks to candles and matches. In the end, and when his reservations began to falter, his distress request was sighted and the rescue took place. Recovered the mood and with the forces replenished, the survivor plans to return to his home area, Salt Lake City. "It's not my house, because my house is this," he said from Alaska, "but with my family, because they have a dog and that would help me therapy"

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