A Swedish man has been rescued after being trapped inside his snowed-in car for two months, according to authorities.
Police said Peter Skyllberg, 44, was "barely alive" after surviving since mid-December on a deserted road in Umea, northern Sweden.
He told police that he had survived by chipping off snow from the car and eating it.
"He was in a very poor state. Poor condition," Ebbe Nyberg from the Umea police said. "He said he'd been there for a long time and survived on a little snow."
The man, who local media reports is from southern Sweden and had a sleeping bag in the car with him, drove off a main road 2km into the deep forest the week before Christmas.
He is now in intensive care at the Umea University Hospital, according to local media reports.
"He himself says he has not eaten anything since December 19," Nyberg said.
Europe has been gripped be severely cold weather and snowfalls this month. The road the man was found on had not been ploughed since December.
Local media said a man on a snowscooter first spotted the car last Friday.
When he scraped snow off the window and peered inside he noticed movements and raised the alarm.
3 News / Reuters