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Julia Clarke

US journalist reveals harrowing details of surviving 6 days stranded on remote Norwegian mountain with broken femur and no water: "I knew I wasn't going to be able to move"

Photo of missing journalist Alex Luhn provided by Veronika Silchenko .

US journalist Alec Luhn has spoken out about how he survived for six days on a Norwegian glacier with multiple broken bones and no water.

Luhn, a climate journalist, was reported missing by his wife Veronika Silchenko on August 5 when he failed to show up for his flight back to London after a solo backpacking trip to explore a glacier in Folgefonna National Park. Search and rescue teams found him alive on August 6 and airlifted him to a hospital in Bergen.

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