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Samuel Vengrinovich was hiking in the Himalayas on June 6 when he got separated from his group and was seriously injured himself in a fall

During his nine-day ordeal, he descended from the terrain with limited movement and resorted to sucking water out of plant stems and drinking his urine

Rescued by villagers, Vengrinovich was later taken to a hospital and underwent surgeries

Over three months after he went missing for nine days in the Himalayas , Samuel Vengrinovich is still processing what happened to him and how he miraculously survived under extreme conditions.

“I tell people it's like I had a funeral and I was able to see all the love from my friends and my family,” Vengrinovich, 44, tells PEOPLE, “but then with a little twist at the end that I survived.”

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