Tragic snowstorm: Youtuber Storm de Beul died in Lapland

Tragic snowstorm: Youtuber Storm de Beul died in Lapland

The tragic death of 22-year-old Belgian Youtubers Storm de Beul shocked his fans and the entire online community. The adventurer, known for his captivating survival videos, was on a last expedition in the Rauen wilderness of Lapland in northern Sweden. On the night of October 30th, he was surprised by a violent snowstorm while he opened his tent in the Jokkmukk mountain region. In just a few hours, an adventure became the struggle for survival.

last messages in the cold

In his last hours, de Beul desperately tried to calm his family. In a message to his grandmother, he wrote: "It snows hard here. But don't worry, I will survive." But the situation worsened dramatically, as well as FOCUS Although he alerted the rescue workers, they could not penetrate him in time due to the extreme weather. The next morning his body was only discovered, several kilometers from its last location. The suspicion that he had tried to get to his car 14 kilometers away testifies to his despair in a hopeless situation.

The sad news did not reach his parents until a day later. "We hoped all day that they will find him alive. In reality they already knew that he was dead," his mother Elisabeth Rademaker described in an interview with Krone . When she learned about the tragedy, her son had already died. According to the reports, Storm's state was so critical that his feet and lower legs were frozen and that he might have broken his nose in a fall. This suggests that he died under agony and in full loneliness, far from help and warmth. His last words and the promise to survive, tragically failed, give the fans and his family a deep pain on the way. But for his parents the little consolation remains that he died in nature that he loved so passionately.