“It was dark and I was shivering and the wind was blowing so I just crawled to a bush and dug in right there. It was cold that night,” he said.

With the sunrise, survival mode kicked in.

“I started dragging myself. I did the same thing all day and I only got about two miles,” he said.

Two people passed by. Mr Gilmore tried flagging them down but they only honked and kept going.