A 7-year-old Alaska boy who went missing after a blizzard said they survived by digging a hole to sleep.Ethan Camille, 7, and his brothers and cousin, Christopher Johnson, 14; Frank Johnson, 8; and Trey Camille, 2, went missing last week during a snow-machine ride in rural Alaska. They spent the night together before they were rescued the next day about 20 miles outside the village of Nunam Iqua on Alaska’s west coast.
7 year old Alaska boy Ethan Camille explained how he and his cousins survived.HE said he they tried to find their way back home and then it cold.When they couldnt find their way back and decided to make a hole.The mother of Ethan Camille,Irene Camille said that Christopher Johnson,Ethan’s cousin wanted to hold the 2-year-old in the hole. So, Ethan moved to the doorway to make room for the toddler. She said the cousins tried to “protect the baby till the end.”
They sacrificed their health, their everything” to make sure Trey would survive, she said.The four were appropriately dressed but there was still reason for concern, officials said.Ethan’s mother recalled “people hollering and screaming and clapping” after their rescue.Christopher was being treated at Providence Alaska Medical Center. His brother, Frank, and Trey are back at home, KTVA said.”They’re my babies. I don’t ever want anybody to go through what they did,” Irene Camille told the station.She said she woke up a few times one night to stare at Ethan to “make sure he was really there.”Ethan sat upright in his bed at the Anchorage hospital. A teddy bear and an Iron Man action figure were in front of him.
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