A 67-year-old man found alive six days after his car plunged 200 feet off a mountain road built a makeshift camp, ate leaves and drank water from a nearby creek to survive, when he couldn't climb the ravine with his injuries.

His kids tried to retrace his route this week.

‘We stopped at every ravine, and looked over every hill…the next thing we heard Dad saying ‘help, help,' and there he was,' his daughter said.

The severity of the situation must have been felt by their dad because another wrecked vehicle from an unrelated accident was smashed at the bottom of the same ravine with a decomposing body inside.

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