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A Uruguayan man who before the start of winter in the Andes Mountains has been alive and well. Raul Fernando Gomez, 58, lost in a blizzard while to cross the Andes range from Chile to Argentina. The start of his ordeal when his motorbike down in the middle of nowhere. Mr Gomez told reporters he had no choice but to walk in the hope of a town nearby. He became disoriented in the heavy snowfall and could not find his way back to the road. He a mountain shelter 2,840 metres above sea level and himself up there to survive the long, freezing winter. A local governor said: "The truth is that this is a miracle. We still can't believe it."

Mr Gomez was found and by a team of Argentine meteorological officials who had to the shelter to record snowfall levels. He had survived by rats and eating leftover supplies he found in the shelter. Doctors surprise at how well he had . He was very thin and had 20kg in weight. A doctor said he was surprised by Mr Gomez's resilience, : "He's a patient with high blood pressure, a history of smoking and signs of undernourishment, but…in a few days we're to him." Members of a Uruguayan rugby team famously sub-zero temperatures in the Andes for 72 days in 1972 by eating the bodies of fellow plane-crash victims.