Overview

• The American climate journalist says he fell near the Buarbreen tongue of the Folgefonna glacier on July 31, leaving him largely immobilized with a broken femur and a fractured pelvis.
• His backpack tore open in the fall, costing him his phone and water, so he sheltered with a tent pole and rain jacket, rationed food and drank his urine to stay hydrated enough to eat.
• After he missed his August 4 flight home, his wife alerted authorities, triggering a multi-day search that was hindered by heavy rain and low clouds.
• Norwegian Red Cross teams, volunteers and drones joined the operation, and a helicopter spotted him on August 6 after he signaled with a bandanna on a tent pole.
• Doctors treated him in Norway for fractures and frostbite, and he is expected to continue his recovery in Britain.