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Traped in the ...
Blake Stanfield was so ... about his father’s birthday ... – a ... trip in Alaska – but it turned into a ... 5-day fight for ... !
On a beautiful ... day in June 2003, Blake Stanfield ... to take his father, Neil, on a trip into the Alaskan wilderness. On their first morning, they set off together down the Koyukuk River on their ... .
They had only travelled a few miles down the river when, to their ... , they saw a huge wall of ... in front of them! Their raft ... into the ice and the men fell into the ... cold water. If the water hadn’t been so ... , they would have been able to ... onto the ice, but instead, it quickly ... them under and ... them along. The river ... Blake around and hit his head against the ice. “What have I done?” Blake thought at that ... . But just then, he ... and saw his father holding onto an ... . Freezing cold and with Neil ... from ... , the two men made their way to the ... . Blake quickly ... a fire. He knew his father would die from the cold if he didn’t get warm soon. He also took a ... and made a ... out of branches.
The next morning, Blake knew that he had to get help as they had lost all their ... – their food, ... , and ... . He left his father and made his way towards a town 104 km away, ... loudly to ... off bears. He even caught and ate ... and ... to give him ... . But there was a problem. When he ... a river, he realised it was too ... for him to swim across without getting hypothermia. ... , Neil was also fighting to stay ... . One time, he fell asleep and woke up just in time to keep his fire ... .
By Monday, both men were getting weaker and weaker from ... of food. “If only I hadn’t left my father!” Blake thought. But then, he had an idea. If he built a ... fire, any planes flying ... would ... see him. On Tuesday evening, a pilot finally ... Blake. After a short while, a ... helicopter ... him up. They quickly found Neil.
“You look awful!” Blake said to Neil when he first saw him, ... and crying with ... . “You don’t look so great yourself,” Neil ... . The two men ... each other they would go on another ... together, but ... without any swimming under the ice!