VIDEO: Lost in the woods, sisters survived on Girl Scout cookies
Published in Weird News
LUCE COUNTY, Mich. (UPI) -- Two sisters lost in the woods for nearly two weeks survived on Girl Scout cookies, cheese puffs and snow before being rescued Friday.
Rescue workers found Lee Wright, 56, and Leslie Roy, 52, after their SUV got stuck April 11 in the deep snow in a tree-canopied area in Michigan's remote Upper Peninsula. They were weak but in otherwise fine condition, authorities said.
"It is unbelievably remarkable," said Michigan State Police Detective Sgt. Jeff Marker, who assisted in the rescue. They had multiple layers of clothes on and they were rationing their food.
Roy, from Nebraska, and Wright, from Oklahoma, left the town of Ishpeming after visiting their relatives and planned to make a three-hour drive to Mackinaw City but never arrived. Their vehicle got stuck near Crisp Point, in an area they couldn't get cellphone service. While stranded, they relied on eight boxes of Girl Scout cookies and a bag of cheese puffs for food and melted snow for water.
Friday, state police in a helicopter spotted the women. Police hiked 25 minutes before reaching them.
"When we pulled up, they grabbed their purses and Lee Wright clutched onto her Bible and both women were very happy," Marker said. It was hugs all around.
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