{"id":79931,"date":"2024-06-24T10:32:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T10:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/24\/heart-warming-pictures-of-hiker-reuniting-with-family-after-being-lost-in-california-woods-for-10-days\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T10:32:07","slug":"heart-warming-pictures-of-hiker-reuniting-with-family-after-being-lost-in-california-woods-for-10-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/24\/heart-warming-pictures-of-hiker-reuniting-with-family-after-being-lost-in-california-woods-for-10-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart-warming pictures of hiker reuniting with family after being lost in California woods for 10 days"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A hiker who lost more than 13kg after disappearing in California’s woods had to have rocks removed from his back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pictures have emerged of the moment a shirtless Lukas McClish, 34, was reunited with his family after being lost for 10 days in Big Basin Redwood State Park.<\/p>\n

Mr McClish was last seen on 11 June<\/a><\/strong> but was only reported missing on 16 June, when he failed to show up for a Father’s Day dinner, according to the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n

He was found on Friday after people reported hearing someone scream and drones were deployed to track him down.<\/p>\n

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Mr McClish, an experienced hiker, told the New York Times (NYT) he drank water from creeks and ate wild berries in order to survive – a “diet” which saw him lose 13.6kg (30lbs).<\/p>\n

“I was kind of doing the water-diet thing,” said Mr McClish. “If you drink a gallon and a half of water every day, you don’t need food until you run out of carbs.”<\/p>\n

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Mr McClish described how he had very little on him when he embarked on what he thought would only be a three-hour hike before work.<\/p>\n

“I left with just a pair of pants, and my pair of hiking shoes, and a hat. I had a flashlight, and a pair of folding scissors, like a Leatherman tool. And that was about it,” he told ABC7.<\/p>\n

But he ended up getting lost as landmarks along the track had been eroded by fires.<\/p>\n

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The sheriff’s office said it had received multiple reports of witnesses hearing someone yelling for help.<\/p>\n

State Parks rangers were the first to discover him and fire crews helped bring him to safety on Friday.<\/p>\n

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During the first few days of his ordeal, Mr McClish tried to see his experience as an opportunity to spend time with himself and test his survival skills.<\/p>\n

“So, I kind of just hiked,” he said. “Each day, I go up a canyon, down a canyon to the next waterfall, sit down by the waterfall, drink water out of my boot.”<\/p>\n

But by day five, he started to look at ways of getting back home.<\/p>\n

“I knew if I kept following the sun I’d get to the ocean eventually, but I didn’t know how far from the ocean I was,” he said.<\/p>\n

By day eight, Mr McClish was repeatedly shouting in the hope of getting someone’s attention as he suffered from hypothermia and had fallen while walking over a rock face.<\/p>\n

Once rescued, Mr McClish was taken to hospital for a night, where he had rocks removed from his back, the NYT quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n

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“I did enough hiking for probably the whole rest of the year,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Me too,” his dad said.<\/p>\n

“We’ve all hiked a lot,” his mother added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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