A man who was rescued from a mountainside after catching hypothermia has told how his heart stopped beating for three hours during the ordeal. When he woke from a five-day coma - the first thing he asked for was a drink of Coke.
Tommy Price became unwell while climbing Blencathra in the Lake District with a friend on January 6. The 27-year-old had just started ascending the mountain in freezing conditions when he became unwell and felt ‘delirious’.
He went into cardiac arrest as his body temperature began to plummet. His friend Max, was forced to leave him on the mountainside so he could go and find help at the bottom of the slope.
