Massiv mördarjakt i Kanadas vildmarker (båda två hittade avlidna 2019-08-07)

Alberta RCMP has confirmed the two men wanted in a Canada-wide manhunt were spotted at a Fairview gas station on July 20th."

"This is now the second confirmed sighting of the two in the province of Alberta, as Cold Lake RCMP also confirmed the two spent time in the area.
https://www.mygrandeprairienow.com/59865/manhunt-suspects-previously-spotted-in-fairview-rcmp/

Two stranded adventurers trekked 120 km to Gillam over 10 days—nearly as long as Schmegelsky and McLeod have been on the run.

(..) a couple of German tourists who learned more about the landscape than they ever intended.

“We calculated it might take four or five days to travel the 120 kilometres—thinking we could travel 30 kilometres a day,”

After the first half-hour of walking, they were disappointed to find they’d only gone 500 metres. “When you’re walking on the street, you have solid ground and when you push off, everything is fine,” Höntsch explains. “But here, the ground was so soft that you’re sinking in. This took a lot out of you. It takes more energy to lift your feet up and down then it does to move them forward.”

They had a compass and small GPS device to keep them on track. At the end of Day 1, they had covered less than six kilometres—as black flies and mosquitoes left their marks on their skin. “We were so exhausted after that first day,” he says."

Now with a longer trip than first anticipated, they had to ration the food they’d brought along. Breakfast and lunch consisted of two slices of bread with chocolate spread. Dinner was noodles with soup."
“We lost a lot of weight,” Höntsch says. The did, however, manage to drink one litre of water apiece every hour—which they’d find en route but boil every night before bed to keep it safe. "

"They started to hike at 7 a.m., but heavy rain forced them on two occasions to stop and pull out a tarp amid their 13-km planned route for the day. “You have no real means to protect yourself from the weather unless you have a cabin,” he says. And nowhere on route did they happen to come across any cabin."

“Your feet are always wet, which adds to the exhaustion,” Höntsch says. “We lost feeling in our toes. My shoes were completely torn apart after 10 days.”

"During the day, the temperature soared above 30 C. At night, it could get down to single digits."

"After a few days, Höntsch says the hardest part became staying focused and not losing sanity. “Both of us had moments when one of us would sit down and tell the other ‘I’m not going any further,’” he remembers. “We basically gave up on life. This happened. We had to motivate each other 20 or 30 times a day to keep going.”

"Höntsch says, “if you’re in the right place, it’s very easy to hide.”

“Our situation is different from those boys’, because we were trying to reach civilization,” Höntsch says. “But I think [survival] strongly depends on what you’re willing to do, rather than what you’re capable of doing.”
https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/can-the-fugitives-survive-the-manitoba-wilderness-ask-these-german-tourists/