Because of his survival skills … an American survived lost in the Sierra Nevada mountains

US emergency teams have rescued a California citizen, stranded for a week, and stranded in snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains, following his navigation system, on a mountain road

.Citizen Harland Earls, 29, a construction worker, was rescued by a rescue crew via helicopter, hours after emergency senders tracked his mobile phone signal to an unplanted road inside the Tahoe National Forest, according to the Sierra County Sheriff’s Office.

His mother, Julie Earls, indicated that her son survived the ordeal thanks to his “tenacity, resourcefulness and his skills in survival.”

“He didn’t lose hope, he didn’t give up, he couldn’t do that to his family,” she added.The Harland Earls truck was stuck on a dirt part of a remote road, after the storm caused snowfall 6 to 8 feet (about 2.44 meters) deep, as the construction worker had visited friends in Grass Valley over the weekend, before hitting California’s worst snowstorm, as Interstate 80, the main road over Donner Pass Mountain, was closed on January 24 due to heavy snowfall. Harland was supposed to take State Route 49 to visit his girlfriend in Truckee, on his way back. His home, but his GPS rerouted him to travel the Hines Pass Road.

His mother pointed out that he first tried to tow the car using an electric saw and rope, but he did not go far, and when his clothes and cell phone got wet, and night fell, Harland decided to take a walk, and legalize his ration of two cans of beans, bread and some sausages, to eat it in stages, as he used Propane heater in the truck to dissolve small amounts of ice for drinking water.

To stay warm, Harland tied his pants to his shoe and sat in the back of his truck, which was covered in a shell-like cover. To dry his cell phone, Harland stuffed a “ziplock” bag with pasta and warmed it manually, according to his mother.

According to his mother, Harland spread a blue cloth and burned things found in his truck, with the aim of sending a “smoke signal”, but the helicopter that flew near him did not notice this, and after a specified time, the young man trapped in the snow tied his skateboards to his feet, and reused it. Like snowshoes, and he walked aloft for 4 miles (about 6.44 km), to find a signal for his mobile phone service, where he immediately called the emergency service, and despite the connection was interrupted due to the weak signal, Harland was located on the GPS system, and it was sent Team to save him.

Source: “The Associated Press”