I SURVIVED 6 DAYS BY DRINKING MY URINE
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- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:52:28 +1100
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16 February 2006
I SURVIVED 6 DAYS BY DRINKING MY URINE
Climber tells of ordeal
By Mark Ellis
A SERIOUSLY injured climber told yesterday how he survived for six days by drinking his own urine.
Paul Beck fractured his hip in a 900ft plunge down a mountainside in Spain.
He lay on a snowy ledge in agony and in freezing temperatures before being discovered and airlifted to hospital.
The 33-year-old charity worker said: "I was more thirsty than I was hungry. I feared the cold and dehydration.
"I tried drinking my own urine - ugh! I can't really describe what it tasted like, but salty and other things. It helped to keep me going."
Paul said he also tried to melt snow and ice to drink using a small camping stove he had with him.
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But he added: "I was sheltering in such a confined space that I feared I would set fire to my clothing, so I gave up the idea.
"I am a very lucky man. The weather held day and night, although it was bitterly cold.
"I was dressed for the mountains and with a small sleeping bag.
"I also managed to slip into this dip which helped to protect me from the elements.
"I knew that my mother, who is a regular visitor to Spain, would contact the Civil guard when I failed to turn up for a meeting on Friday.
"So I knew that a rescue operation would be mounted some time."
Paul explained how he was spotted by a helicopter rescue crew on the Asturias peaks because they saw his red survival bag.
He said: "They had been told I was carrying that bag by my girlfriend back in London."
"She had insisted that I should give her a full itinerary of my movements before I left. When the rescue services were contacted she passed that information on to them.
"She also knew what I was carrying and how I would be dressed."
His ordeal began when he slipped on ice in the Picos de Europa mountains near Arriondas on February 6.
Civil guard rescuers said they had been amazed to find Paul alive on Sunday.
One said: "To survive six days high up in the mountains with a serious injury in midwinter speaks for itself."
Yesterday, Paul, of south London, was in Oriente hospital, in Arriondas.
He added: "I'm on traction and still having tests. I don't know when I will be able to travel home."
His mum Maria Beck said: "All I can do is thank the civil guard rescue team, the doctors and the hospital staff from the bottom of my heart.
"Considering he spent so many days without eating, it is a miracle.
"When I saw him he said to me, 'Sorry, mum, because last Friday I planned to be with you'."
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