Gary Smith his twentieth birthday yesterday , but he is lucky to be alive. In March this year, he was climbing Ben Navis, Britain's highest mountain, when he his way and sixteen hours in sub-zero temperatures.
"My friends at me for having so much survival equipment, but it my life."
On the first night, the weather was so bad that it tore his new mountain tent to pieces, so he moved into a Youth Hostel. He the hostel at 10.00 the next morning, but that afternoon he was in trouble. "I off a rock and my left leg. I move."
Mountain rescue teams went out to look for Gary, and him at 9.00 the next morning. A helicopter him to hospital.