Man Stranded in Snow, Survives on Frozen Beer

(Dailymail.co.uk) A driver stranded in snow for three days at temperatures of minus 17 has survived by eating frozen beer.

Clifton Vial, 52, became stranded in his Toyota Tacoma 40 miles outside Nome, Alaska after plunging in a snow drift.

Uncharacteristically unprepared for the situation, he was wearing jeans and a thin coat – not protective enough to dig himself out of the snow without getting frostbite.

And with no signal on his cellphone, he had to sit and wait for his colleagues to realise he was missing.
He kept warm in a fleece sleeping bag and by wrapping a bath towel around his feet, and would occasionally start the truck to run the heater. He stuffed rags in his clothes and unraveled tissue paper, pushing it down around his feet
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After searching the truck, he found only three cans of frozen Coors Light.

'I cut the lids off and dug it out with a knife,’ he told the Anchorage Daily News.

‘I felt really pissed at myself. I shouldn't have been out there by myself unprepared for what I knew was possible.’

He said the cold was more unbearable than the hunger.

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