Lost Irish-Singaporean hiker...in a swamp in the Adirondacks. Glad he made it out.
Ranger Jason Scott was assigned to search the south side of the Dix Pond Swamp. At around 2:50 p.m. that Sunday, he shut off the ATV he was driving and started calling the man’s name. He heard a response. When Scott eventually approached the man, his clothes were shredded, his shoes were falling apart and his face was covered in bug bites and scratches from thrashing through the trees. He was hypothermic and roughly two miles from the trail...
Martin said the man told forest rangers that he didn’t think he would have been able to “make it through the night” if they hadn’t rescued him.
... The three days the man spent in the swamp were filled with cold and wet conditions that, combined with his lack of food and water, led the man to experience what he told rangers were hallucinations — seeing buildings that weren’t there, talking to people who weren’t there and following trail markers that didn’t exist. He described small periods of sleep to the rangers, but they said he had severe lapses in his memory and that it was “tough to nail down details.” Martin said the man looked like he’d been in a bath for three days, with hands “pruned beyond what I’ve ever seen a human’s hands (look like) before.”
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Ranger Jason Scott was assigned to search the south side of the Dix Pond Swamp. At around 2:50 p.m. that Sunday, he shut off the ATV he was driving and started calling the man’s name. He heard a response. When Scott eventually approached the man, his clothes were shredded, his shoes were falling apart and his face was covered in bug bites and scratches from thrashing through the trees. He was hypothermic and roughly two miles from the trail...
Martin said the man told forest rangers that he didn’t think he would have been able to “make it through the night” if they hadn’t rescued him.
... The three days the man spent in the swamp were filled with cold and wet conditions that, combined with his lack of food and water, led the man to experience what he told rangers were hallucinations — seeing buildings that weren’t there, talking to people who weren’t there and following trail markers that didn’t exist. He described small periods of sleep to the rangers, but they said he had severe lapses in his memory and that it was “tough to nail down details.” Martin said the man looked like he’d been in a bath for three days, with hands “pruned beyond what I’ve ever seen a human’s hands (look like) before.”
Singapore man rescued after three nights in Dix Pond swamp
A man from Singapore who went missing for three nights in the Dix Pond swamp last week told forest rangers with the state Department of Environmental Conservation — who found him last Wednesday — that he might not have lived through a fourth night in the swamp. Forest rangers Andrew Lewis and...
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