Swedish Man Survives 2 Months of Winter in Car (with no heat for much of the time).
Sure seems like the fellow was trying to "run away' from life, or commit suicide. The author of the article speculates about some sort-of hibernation mode that he went into, but I find that unlikely. Looking at the pictures, he definitely had some food and drinks when he started out on this adventure. That was the key for his survival no doubt.
On Friday a passing man on a snowmobile stopped to scrape snow from the windscreen of the vehicle and saw movement inside.
As he recovered in a hospital today details emerged of depression and debts piling up on him and it is thought he might have been trying to take his own life.
Police initially thought he was a nature lover who had become trapped in the snow while on an expedition to photograph elk.
But now it emerges there was a court judgment against him in December because of debts totaling £150,000.
Neighbours of his in the town of Orebro in central Sweden said he had also broken up with his girlfriend and had lost contact with his father and other family members 20 years ago.
'We now have to wait until he is better to try to find out what really was in his mind,' said police officer Ebbe Nyberg.
Mr Skyllberg survived by taking handfuls of snow from the roof of the car.
