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A four-year old boy has incredibly managed to survive for six days on his own after getting lost in Kenyan wilderness.
The young boy from the town of Asa, miraculously went unharmed despite wandering over 11 miles from his home and into a remote area filled with jackals and hyenas.
The young boy had gone missing during a storm after a day of herding livestock with his brothers on November 28. During the torrential weather, the boy became separated from his siblings and found himself lost in the Kenyan bush.
After six days on his own, the young boy was eventually found after a search party was deployed to find him. He was spotted from the air by pilot Roan Carr-Hartley who worked for the nearby Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.
After six days on his own, the young boy (pictured) was eventually found after a search party was deployed to find him. He was spotted from the air by pilot Roan Carr-Hartley in the Kenyan wilderness
A search party of 70 men were fanning through the wild scrubland in search of the little boy. They are pictured by pilot Roan Carr-Hartley from overhead
Pilot Roan Carr-Hartley captured the joyful moment the boy, who had been lost for six days, was reunited with the village search-party
The day after, with the boy still yet to return home, the Asa community chief phoned Sheldrick Wildlife Trust to ask if they would help their 70-member search party find the boy to bring him safely home.
The chief had heard from a neighbouring village that the wildlife trust had assisted them with finding a lost child just days before, using a plane to locate them from the air.
Pilot Roan Carr-Hartley, writing a blog post about the incident, said he set out to search for the boy early the next morning.
'By the time I was overhead,' he wrote, 'a search party of 70 men were fanning through the wild scrubland in search of the little boy. I had a rough direction of the search party’s location given to me by the Chief. The party had tracked the boy to an area seven kilometres from his village, but then the tracks started to become unreadable.'
For four hours, the pilot scanned the area without luck, only discovering packs of hyenas and jackals.
Members of the search party run towards the lost young boy in astonishing images taken by pilot Roan Carr-Hartley
Members of the search party embrace the young boy who had survived on his own in the unforgiving wilderness filled with predators
'It was an unforgiving environment for any person to be alone, let alone a child so young,' Carr-Hartley wrote.
The only solace of good news was that it had rained recently, meaning the boy would at least have
