DENVER — An autistic man lived on a few frogs he caught and roots as he wandered for weeks in the remote Escalante Desert of southern Utah until being rescued, emaciated but alive.
William Martin LaFever, 28, of Colorado Springs, Colo., told
rescuers that in addition to the bits of food he scavenged, he drank
water from the Escalante River while attempting to walk from Boulder,
Utah, to Page, Ariz., a distance of approximately 90 miles or more by
the route he appeared to be taking.
The Garfield County Sheriff’s Department estimated he had
traveled about 40 miles over at least three weeks before he was found
Thursday.
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