Missing Man Rescued After Spending Nine Days in the Wilderness

A Canadian man who went missing for more than a week in the country’s vast wilderness was finally rescued after etching the word “HELP” onto a rock and drinking muddy pond water to survive. Andrew Barber, 39, was found alive on Aug. 8 after going missing a week prior near McLeese Lake, around 365 miles north of Vancouver. Barber became stuck in the wilderness after his truck broke down in the remote area, but survived despite severe dehydration and sustaining a leg injury by building himself a makeshift shelter out of sticks and wood and drinking water from a nearby pond. Rescuer Sgt Brad McKinnon of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said he had survived by “munching on whatever he could find” in the woods and keeping himself hydrated. “He was literally slurping unclean pond water,”