The man, aged in his 40s, was rescued after a passer-by on a snowscooter noticed the top of the car on the
deserted and snowfilled forest road, not far from the northern town of Umeaa, just south of the Arctic Circle. After clearing off some of the snow he peered inside and saw an emaciated man huddling inside a sleeping bag.

“We received word on Friday that a person had been found in a snow-covered car deep in the woods, nearly a mile from the main road,” Ebbe Nyberg, a duty officer in the northern Vaesterbotten county, told AFP.
“He saw movement and realised there was probably a person in there and called the police,” he said.

Mr Nyberg said the man was “in really bad shape,” starving and barely able to move or speak.

It was unclear exactly how long the man, who is from the central Swedish town of Oerebro, had been stuck.

“He says himself he has been without food since December, so we think he must have got there around then, or perhaps earlier, in November,” Mr Nyberg said, pointing out that temperatures in the area have recently plunged as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius.
“It’s just amazing he’s alive!”

The man, who had not been reported missing and who has yet to say how he got stuck, appeared to have survived on nothing but snow since mid-December.

After his rescue, he was taken to the Norrlands University Hospital.

Source – The Telegraph