Most episodes feature two or three separate stories involving scenarios such as kidnapping, assaults, or getting injured or stranded in a remote location. The show allows survivors to explain in their own words how they overcame life-threatening circumstances without dramatic reenactments. is a documentary television series produced by NHNZ that aired on Lifetime Movie Network and, as of 2022, can be seen on Court TV. When Nante was finally found, first responders offered to carry the young boy back to his family, but Nante said he preferred finishing his journey on foot. The parties covered a roughly 40 square mile area. More than 150 people from various law enforcement groups, including nine K9s, joined the search on foot, in the air and on water. Alamy Stock Photo Nante told the search party he preferred to walk out of the forest rather than be carried out. MSP Eighth District Overnight temperatures dropped to the 40s both nights. The second grader survived by eating snow and using leaves for warmth. Nante hunkered down beneath a log until he was found by a search party. The boy endured temperatures that dropped to the 40s both nights. He didn’t have any food but ate clean snow for hydration.” Police said Nante used “branches and leaves for warmth and also blanketed the log he was under. Rather than continue strolling through the unmarked 60,000-acre forest - described by officials as a “very remote” park - the clever child hunkered down and found shelter beneath a log. The lost boy walked an entire trail until he was led to a dead end. Nante Niemi survived two days and nights alone in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in Michigan. The second grader - wearing only a sweatshirt and sweatpants - disappeared 48 hours earlier when he wandered from the Wakefield campsite to gather firewood for his family. Monday roughly two miles from the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park campground - where he had been staying with his family, Michigan State Police said. Nante Niemi of Wisconsin was found at 1:30 p.m. An 8-year-old boy survived two days in the frigid and remote Michigan wilderness by eating snow and hiding beneath a log.

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