![]() ![]() ![]() We drank it three ways: hot, cold and boiled.” Varying it in this way helped reduce the monotony of their single item menu of snow. ![]() “For the last six weeks,” she explained, “we lived on water. Melted snow became their diet, for breakfast, lunch, and the evening meal. Twenty days after the crash, the pair took their last “food”-two tubes of toothpaste. During the first four days after the crash, Helen Klaben ate four tins of sardines, two tins of fruit, and some crackers. ![]() The couple was rescued March 25, 1963, after forty-nine days in the wilderness in the dead of winter, over thirty days of this time without any food at all.īy means of a fire, a lean-to and heavy clothes in which they wrapped themselves, they managed to withstand the bitter cold. In March, 1963, newspapers around the world described the almost incredible story of the seven weeks deprivation of food and the survival of Ralph Flores, a forty-two-year-old pilot of San Bruno, California, and twenty-one-year-old Helen Klaben, a co-ed of Brooklyn, New York, following a plane crash on a mountain side in Northern British Columbia. ![]()
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