Stranded and injured, he drank his own urine to survive in the wild. Here’s how an American hiker made it home

As he tumbled down a steep cliff in Norway, Alec Luhn knew his life was in danger.

“I remember thinking, ‘This is really bad. This is the start of the disaster movie,’” Luhn said in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “This is that moment where everything goes really, really wrong.”

Luhn, a 38-year-old climate journalist from Wisconsin, had set out in late July for a four-day hike in southwest Norway’s Folgefonna National Park — a massive stretch of land noted for its glaciers.

An experienced hiker who had completed several solo trips in challenging conditions, Luhn knew cell service would be spotty and warned his wife any communications from inside the park would be intermittent.

Things quickly went awry.

On the first day of his hike, the sole of his left boot began to detach,