Snowbound Swede's Two-Month Car Igloo
In early 2012, a Swedish man in his mid-forties became trapped in his car on a remote forest road after heavy snow buried the vehicle and cut him off from any help. With no food for nearly two months, he survived by staying inside the car as drifting snow piled up around it, creating an igloo effect that insulated the cabin and trapped what little body heat he could generate.
He lay under a sleeping bag, ate handfuls of snow to stave off dehydration, and moved as little as possible while temperatures outside plunged well below freezing. When snowmobilers finally found the half-buried car about 60 days later, rescuers said he was extremely weak but still alive, and doctors noted that two months is close to the upper limit of how long a human can survive without food.