YouTuber Dies in Blizzard Making Survival/Camping Videos in Northern Sweden
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I don't get it, Elkhound.
for those that dont know...a young man...age 22 years old..just died while making videos. he was caught in a severe snow storm and he died. i will try and find the story....its sad i seen his mother post a reply on his last video.
only reason i am posting this is because how @Sourdough pushes heavy sleeping bag as basic survival 101...it might have saved this young mans life
https://www.youtube.com/@StormOutdoorsy
both parents have made a few replys on his last video.
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YouTuber Documenting Extreme Outdoor Adventures Dies in Severe Snowstorm, Sent Friend Haunting Last Message:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/ne...ge-jesus-christ/ar-AA1uRyRI?ocid=BingNewsSerp
A YouTuber known for documenting his extreme outdoor adventures sent friends and family haunting last messages before being found dead after a severe snowstorm in Sweden.
Storm De Beul, 22, had been hiking solo and had set up camp when the snowstorm hit, sending a friend a video of the wind whipping around his tent and snow in his shoes, as reported Belgian news outlet 7sur7.
"Tonight, it's going to get worse. Jesus Christ," De Beul said in the video.
De Beul reportedly contacted emergency services during the storm, saying he was injured and needed help, however authorities were unable to reach him until the next day due to extreme weather conditions.
The YouTuber was found dead on Oct. 30 in Lapland. His family said he was found outside with no shelter, and he had a broken nose. "He must have suffered for a long time and died alone. I keep imagining his last moments. It devastates me," Elizabeth Rademaker, the man's mother, told the outlet.
De Beul, known as StormOutdoorsy on YouTube, posted videos of him hiking and camping across northern Europe. He had amassed more than 1,100 subscribers while he only began posting on the channel about three months ago.
Before his passing, the YouTuber texted his grandmother, "It's snowing heavily here. But don't worry, I'll survive, you know."
Because of the conditions, his family has not been able to retrieve his belongings. However, his family hopes to find his camera that may have captured his last moments.
"His videos are a priceless legacy for us. But now his camera is there, somewhere in the snow, full of images from his very last trek. I would love nothing more than to get it back," Bout, the man's father, told 7sur7.
Storm De Beul, 22, had been hiking solo and had set up camp when the snowstorm hit, sending a friend a video of the wind whipping around his tent and snow in his shoes, as reported Belgian news outlet 7sur7.
"Tonight, it's going to get worse. Jesus Christ," De Beul said in the video.
De Beul reportedly contacted emergency services during the storm, saying he was injured and needed help, however authorities were unable to reach him until the next day due to extreme weather conditions.
The YouTuber was found dead on Oct. 30 in Lapland. His family said he was found outside with no shelter, and he had a broken nose. "He must have suffered for a long time and died alone. I keep imagining his last moments. It devastates me," Elizabeth Rademaker, the man's mother, told the outlet.
De Beul, known as StormOutdoorsy on YouTube, posted videos of him hiking and camping across northern Europe. He had amassed more than 1,100 subscribers while he only began posting on the channel about three months ago.
Before his passing, the YouTuber texted his grandmother, "It's snowing heavily here. But don't worry, I'll survive, you know."
Because of the conditions, his family has not been able to retrieve his belongings. However, his family hopes to find his camera that may have captured his last moments.
"His videos are a priceless legacy for us. But now his camera is there, somewhere in the snow, full of images from his very last trek. I would love nothing more than to get it back," Bout, the man's father, told 7sur7.
So FAFO outdoors.
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That's horribly sad, Elkhound. When I first saw your post, it was just black, no picture, so that's why I didn't get it.
At 22 he probably thought he'd live forever. Never realized there's reason people don't go camping when it's 20 below, at least the smart ones.
i have a theory...he had that broke nose...he was coming out fast because he got scared and was trucking along fast through the timber when he either hit a tree breaking his nose or fell down and hit his nose on rocks breaking it and it knocked him unconscious for a bit or addled him real bad... when he came too in that cold he had gotten frost bite in feet and lower legs and couldnt walk by then very well....and succumbed to the cold then....just my theory.
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That sounds very possible
My heartfelt condolences go out to the grief stricken family of this young man. Frankly I think it would be better for them to NOT find his phone to save them from suffering additional grief when witnessing any recordings of his mental and physical decline during his last couple of months alive.
I watched the last 3 YT videos that he posted a month ago. I saw a young man who was very poorly equipped for autumn let alone winter, thinly dressed, underweight, looked under-nourished, depressed and unwell, pale and thin and losing his physical strength and becoming clumsy and careless. I think he was already starving and going into a more serious mental decline because of inadequate nutrition a month before he died.
He had no boots, no proper protection for his feet, ankles and calves, just thin leather shoes and a pair of plastic slip on clogs for wearing in camp (if he had anything on his feet at all in camp). He didn't handle his hatchet properly, he was clumsy with it and watching him cut wood for kindling and a couple of times nearly hitting his own body with the blade made me cringe. And there was more that was cringeworthy
I don't know what he was trying to prove to himself or to anyone else by pressing on so unprepared into the winter months. Perhaps he was no longer thinking clearly and logically anymore at the time when he should have already been heading south for home by the beginning of September at the latest.
I feel bad for the boy and the hopeless, terrifying way that he died, and more so for his family who invested 22 years of their own lives in him only to have him waste his own life making youtube videos and making "followers" while he slowly made himself ill and dying out in the boonies.
Sorry if this makes me sound heartless but I have to say this ..... I think he was a candidate for the Darwin Award.
His story reminds me of 24 y.o. unprepared Christopher McCandless from California who wanted to "rough it" in Alaska, who starved to death in late August of 1992 and his emaciated 67 pound body was found in September in the abandoned old Fairbanks Bus #142 bus that he had been staying in out in the bush in Alaska. There was another candidate for the Darwin Award.
I watched the last 3 YT videos that he posted a month ago. I saw a young man who was very poorly equipped for autumn let alone winter, thinly dressed, underweight, looked under-nourished, depressed and unwell, pale and thin and losing his physical strength and becoming clumsy and careless. I think he was already starving and going into a more serious mental decline because of inadequate nutrition a month before he died.
He had no boots, no proper protection for his feet, ankles and calves, just thin leather shoes and a pair of plastic slip on clogs for wearing in camp (if he had anything on his feet at all in camp). He didn't handle his hatchet properly, he was clumsy with it and watching him cut wood for kindling and a couple of times nearly hitting his own body with the blade made me cringe. And there was more that was cringeworthy
I don't know what he was trying to prove to himself or to anyone else by pressing on so unprepared into the winter months. Perhaps he was no longer thinking clearly and logically anymore at the time when he should have already been heading south for home by the beginning of September at the latest.
I feel bad for the boy and the hopeless, terrifying way that he died, and more so for his family who invested 22 years of their own lives in him only to have him waste his own life making youtube videos and making "followers" while he slowly made himself ill and dying out in the boonies.
Sorry if this makes me sound heartless but I have to say this ..... I think he was a candidate for the Darwin Award.
His story reminds me of 24 y.o. unprepared Christopher McCandless from California who wanted to "rough it" in Alaska, who starved to death in late August of 1992 and his emaciated 67 pound body was found in September in the abandoned old Fairbanks Bus #142 bus that he had been staying in out in the bush in Alaska. There was another candidate for the Darwin Award.
Into the Wild was a great read. I believe he was poisoned by a false potato-type plant rather than starved to death if I recall correctly though.My heartfelt condolences go out to the grief stricken family of this young man. Frankly I think it would be better for them to NOT find his phone to save them from suffering additional grief when witnessing any recordings of his mental and physical decline during his last couple of months alive.
I watched the last 3 YT videos that he posted a month ago. I saw a young man who was very poorly equipped for autumn let alone winter, thinly dressed, underweight, looked under-nourished, depressed and unwell, pale and thin and losing his physical strength and becoming clumsy and careless. I think he was already starving and going into a more serious mental decline because of inadequate nutrition a month before he died.
He had no boots, no proper protection for his feet, ankles and calves, just thin leather shoes and a pair of plastic slip on clogs for wearing in camp (if he had anything on his feet at all in camp). He didn't handle his hatchet properly, he was clumsy with it and watching him cut wood for kindling and a couple of times nearly hitting his own body with the blade made me cringe. And there was more that was cringeworthy
I don't know what he was trying to prove to himself or to anyone else by pressing on so unprepared into the winter months. Perhaps he was no longer thinking clearly and logically anymore at the time when he should have already been heading south for home by the beginning of September at the latest.
I feel bad for the boy and the hopeless, terrifying way that he died, and more so for his family who invested 22 years of their own lives in him only to have him waste his own life making youtube videos and making "followers" while he slowly made himself ill and dying out in the boonies.
Sorry if this makes me sound heartless but I have to say this ..... I think he was a candidate for the Darwin Award.
His story reminds me of 24 y.o. unprepared Christopher McCandless from California who wanted to "rough it" in Alaska, who starved to death in late August of 1992 and his emaciated 67 pound body was found in September in the abandoned old Fairbanks Bus #142 bus that he had been staying in out in the bush in Alaska. There was another candidate for the Darwin Award.
That is correct. McCandless was already starving though because he was out of supplies by July and couldn't get back across the nearby swollen Teklanika River to get to the road out. IIRC, out of desperation he was eating very coarse vegetation (like dogtooth fern), mushrooms, toadstools, roots and poisonous solanum (nightshade) tubers and seeds which would have caused hallucinations as well as chronic explosive diarrhea that would cause severe dehydration that would hasten his death. Maybe an easy mistake to make to eat those tubers since potato is a solanum too and the tubers of some solanums have similar appearance to potato tubers.
My heart goes out to his parents. The poor lad; though I do credit him with the 'at least he tried' award - rather than posting videos of himself on the couch.
Weren't we all unbeatable at 22?
I think of Chris McCandless often funnily enough, as I was in the States when he passed away, and as I've gotten older with kids of my own feel the whole of his life was a sorry affair. He's listed now as 'adventurer' online, which seems a bit of a stretch. A lost soul, wanderer maybe. Like the term 'hero', its overused, and dilutes real adventurers achievements.
Weren't we all unbeatable at 22?
I think of Chris McCandless often funnily enough, as I was in the States when he passed away, and as I've gotten older with kids of my own feel the whole of his life was a sorry affair. He's listed now as 'adventurer' online, which seems a bit of a stretch. A lost soul, wanderer maybe. Like the term 'hero', its overused, and dilutes real adventurers achievements.
yes...and it goes to reason for this thread.... @Sourdough pushing various pieces of gear starting with best sleeping bag and moving forward from there. i recently bought the bag he uses...teton -35f bag.My heartfelt condolences go out to the grief stricken family of this young man. Frankly I think it would be better for them to NOT find his phone to save them from suffering additional grief when witnessing any recordings of his mental and physical decline during his last couple of months alive.
I watched the last 3 YT videos that he posted a month ago. I saw a young man who was very poorly equipped for autumn let alone winter, thinly dressed, underweight, looked under-nourished, depressed and unwell, pale and thin and losing his physical strength and becoming clumsy and careless. I think he was already starving and going into a more serious mental decline because of inadequate nutrition a month before he died.
He had no boots, no proper protection for his feet, ankles and calves, just thin leather shoes and a pair of plastic slip on clogs for wearing in camp (if he had anything on his feet at all in camp). He didn't handle his hatchet properly, he was clumsy with it and watching him cut wood for kindling and a couple of times nearly hitting his own body with the blade made me cringe. And there was more that was cringeworthy
I don't know what he was trying to prove to himself or to anyone else by pressing on so unprepared into the winter months. Perhaps he was no longer thinking clearly and logically anymore at the time when he should have already been heading south for home by the beginning of September at the latest.
I feel bad for the boy and the hopeless, terrifying way that he died, and more so for his family who invested 22 years of their own lives in him only to have him waste his own life making youtube videos and making "followers" while he slowly made himself ill and dying out in the boonies.
Sorry if this makes me sound heartless but I have to say this ..... I think he was a candidate for the Darwin Award.
His story reminds me of 24 y.o. unprepared Christopher McCandless from California who wanted to "rough it" in Alaska, who starved to death in late August of 1992 and his emaciated 67 pound body was found in September in the abandoned old Fairbanks Bus #142 bus that he had been staying in out in the bush in Alaska. There was another candidate for the Darwin Award.
I agree about gear....and knowledge or lack of....McCandles you mentioned lack a bunch of stuff...gear and basic item..a map.If he had a map he would have seen trolley cable car upstream from his location for crossing river when flooded.A friend of mine use to sail with him often.He says he was a very different kind of person.
Years ago now the military removed the bus to an undisclosed location because so many people were flocking to it and getting into trouble themselves.The bus is scheduled at some point to possibly be put in a museum.
Bottom line...good gear and knowledge and make good decisions and have discernment in making them.
I went and looked this up last night. It was not a solanum species, it was a Faba species somewhat related to vetch, called Eskimo Potato. A legume. He had been eating the seeds instead of the tubers which are postulated to be poisonous. Wikipedia for once had some pretty good information on it.
Thanks for that information about that. Looking online about the McCandless story in these days one will find so many conflicting stories, theories and speculations about what he ate or didn't eat. All the way up to McCandless "experts" saying that nobody knows what he ate or poisoned himself with at all in spite of the fact that his stomach contents were examined and toxins identified.
Yes, he had Hedysarum alpinum seeds in his stomach contents too. It's also known as alpine sweet-vetch, bear root, Indian potato, Alaska carrot. It has been assumed but never actually confirmed by anyone that those seeds are what poisoned him. I have no doubt though that in his malnourished and weakened state they would certainly have contributed to his poisoning along with some of the other troubling mal-nourishing or toxic contents found in his stomach.
This young 22 y/o man has something in common with hundreds of millions of other people. It would be wise for people to look into a mirror and tell the truth.
If you are fundamentally "internet' and/or you tube" educated about survival, you are not adequately trained. Many millions will discover this in a large broad SHTF event.
If you are fundamentally "internet' and/or you tube" educated about survival, you are not adequately trained. Many millions will discover this in a large broad SHTF event.
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If you are YouTube education on ANY topic, you are misinformed or underinformed.
Enough youtubers, ticktockers, etc. have died to prove that several times over.
McCandless is one of any number of young men that come to Alaska to test themselves. They fail often. Frequently they die. He just happened to catch the press on a low news cycle day, someone wrote a book, and someone else made a movie. Unfortunately they made him out to be a hero rather than an uneducated fool. Highly experienced people only survive around here by good judgement and concentration.
I agree. Not to be unkind, but did this guy not watch other youtubers doing similar things and observe the gear they used and the warnings they gave? Obviously, this guy had no emergency exit strategy, which is terribly sad - and stupid.
12-22-24 today video
I like that Russian fellow, I think he's practical and he knows what he's advising about. I have enjoyed watching his two videos that you posted in this thread and I appreciate his many years of experience and wisdom.
But if you're going to be posting more of his videos in the future I think he deserves a thread of his own, about him and what he's teaching, rather than being referenced in a thread that has a title about a random dead young youtuber in Sweden who died in a blizzard.
But if you're going to be posting more of his videos in the future I think he deserves a thread of his own, about him and what he's teaching, rather than being referenced in a thread that has a title about a random dead young youtuber in Sweden who died in a blizzard.
I think they moved that bus to "Alaska State Fair Grounds" in Palmer, Alaska.
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In response to this thread. I wrote one of my better and more useful threads (I think on this forum) about wilderness survival knowledge & and about the tremendous amount of things that Alaskan Guides know. But that they are unaware of knowing.
What is interesting and the point of this exact post, is they know things (are you ready for it) that they are unaware that they know. I remember the first time that "truth" was a surprise to me.
I was guiding a hunter in western Alaska. We finally spotted a trophy moose far across what looked like a massive golf green, maybe half to three-quarter miles away. It was late afternoon. The hunter was excited, and wanted to go "right-now" go.
I said we can't. He said he would go without me. Which is not legal for him to do. I said NO, we can't cross over to there from here. We need to find a different way around to there tomorrow.
To the hunters eye it looked like a manicured perfectly flat huge field. But from 45 years of guiding, I could tell from the color & shape of the vegetation it was a floating bog.
When I first told the hunter that we could not do that. I honestly did not know why I said that. It was only as I more carefully studied the vegetation that I realized why it was not possible. The point is with 45 years of living it, you "KNOW" things that you don't know that you do know.
I do hope this makes sense.
What is interesting and the point of this exact post, is they know things (are you ready for it) that they are unaware that they know. I remember the first time that "truth" was a surprise to me.
I was guiding a hunter in western Alaska. We finally spotted a trophy moose far across what looked like a massive golf green, maybe half to three-quarter miles away. It was late afternoon. The hunter was excited, and wanted to go "right-now" go.
I said we can't. He said he would go without me. Which is not legal for him to do. I said NO, we can't cross over to there from here. We need to find a different way around to there tomorrow.
To the hunters eye it looked like a manicured perfectly flat huge field. But from 45 years of guiding, I could tell from the color & shape of the vegetation it was a floating bog.
When I first told the hunter that we could not do that. I honestly did not know why I said that. It was only as I more carefully studied the vegetation that I realized why it was not possible. The point is with 45 years of living it, you "KNOW" things that you don't know that you do know.
I do hope this makes sense.
