A pair of sisters survived for nearly two weeks in the woods on cheese puffs and Girl Scout Cookies after getting stranded in their car in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula.
Lee Wright, 56, and Leslie Roy, 52, got stuck in the snow on a one-lane tree-lined road on April 11 after visiting family in Ishpeming, reports the MLive/The Grand Rapids Press. They tried to reach police but had no cellphone service.
They relied on eight boxes of Girl Scout Cookies and cheese puffs for food, as well as snow for water.
On Friday they were rescued by a state police helicopter that spotted the windshield of their Ford Explorer.
“It is unbelievably remarkable,” Michigan State Police Detective Sgt. Jeff Marker, who was one of four rescuers aboard the helicopter, told MLive. “They had multiple layers of clothes on and they were rationing their food.”
[MLive/The Grand Rapids Press]
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