A man who went missing for five weeks in a remote park in the Rocky Mountains has been found alive – after enduring temperatures as low as -20C (-4F).

Sam Benastick was reported missing on 19 October after failing to return from a 10-day trip to Redfern-Keily Park in Canada’s British Columbia province.

Search efforts, led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), were called off in late October with temperatures dropping well below freezing at times.

But on Tuesday, two men on their way to work at Redfern Lake saw a man walking towards them and recognised him as Mr Benastick.

They took him to a hospital, where police officially identified him as the missing 20-year-old.

Corporal Madonna Saunderson, of the British Columbia RCMP communications team, said: “Finding Sam alive is the absolute best outcome.

“After all the time he was missing, it was feared that this would not be the outcome.”

Mr Benastick told police he stayed in his car for a couple of days and then walked to a creek where he camped out for between 10 and 15 days.

He said he then moved down the valley, and built a camp and shelter in a dried-out creek bed, before making his way to the area where he was found.

According to CBC News, Mr Benastick’s parents had stayed for 20 days at the Buffalo Inn near Pink Mountain while taking part in the search.

The inn’s general manager, Mike Reid, who said he had spoken to the people who found Mr Benastick, told the Canadian broadcaster: “You know, the guy says he’s in rough shape. But man, for 50 days out in that cold, he’s going to live.”

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More than 120 volunteers from across British Columbia were reportedly involved in the search effort, alongside the RCMP and Canadian Rangers, as well as Fort Nelson and North Peace search and rescue teams.

Redfern-Keily Park, where Mr Benastick went missing, is a remote beauty spot in the north-eastern region of British Columbia and is part of the Northern Rocky Mountains.

Those visiting the park are warned it is an “isolated area and weather can change rapidly” – and to be wary of possible encounters with grizzly and black bears.

At least 27 have died after flash floods and landslides hit the north of Indonesia’s Sumatra island.

Torrential rain started striking North Sumatra province last week, causing flash floods and landslides in four districts, with extreme weather expected through to the end of the year.

As of Thursday morning, at least 27 have died as a result of the conditions.

Hadi Wahyudi, a North Sumatra police spokesperson, said a landslide in Deli Serdang on Wednesday killed seven and injured 20.

Rescuers found 20 people dead in other locations during a search that started over the weekend.

Mr Wahyudi said rescue efforts are ongoing and authorities are still searching for missing people, including some trapped in a minibus and other vehicles hit by a mudslide on a hilly interprovince road.

“Today, we’re focusing our search to find missing people and clearing the roads affected by the landslides,” he said, before adding excavators have been deployed.

Heavy rain also triggered floods in the provincial capital of Medan, forcing a delay in votes for a regional election in some polling stations.

Indonesia’s weather agency has warned that extreme conditions are expected towards the end of 2024 as the La Nina phenomenon increases rainfall across the tropical archipelago.

The country – made up of more than 17,000 islands where millions live in mountainous areas or near flood plains – regularly sees flooding and landslides from seasonal rain between October and March.

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In March, at least 19 people were killed in Sumatra after torrential rain caused landslides.

The closely-fought Irish general election campaign has entered its final day, as concern over the economic threat posed by Donald Trump becomes an electoral theme.

With housing and the cost of living among key concerns, Irish voters are being wooed with substantial spending promises from the main parties, despite economists warning of “a clear and present danger” to Ireland’s corporation tax revenues from the president-elect, who assumes office in Washington on 20 January.

Around a quarter of Ireland’s tax take comes from foreign-owned multinational companies, largely in the technology, pharmaceutical and chemical sectors.

Donald Trump wants those American firms to book their profits, and pay their taxes, in the US instead.

He also has plans for tariffs of up to 20% on goods from EU countries. Ireland currently has a record trade surplus with the US of some €35bn (£29bn).

Mr Trump’s choice for commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, has already taken aim at Ireland’s trade policies, saying it’s “nonsense that Ireland of all places runs a trade surplus at our expense…when we end this nonsense, America will be a truly great country again. You’ll be shocked”.

These are ominous signs for Irish economists like Dan O’Brien, who works with the Institute of International and European Affairs.

He said it’s “very difficult to overstate how dependent on its economic integration with the United States” Ireland is, as in many ways “it’s the basis of our economic model”.

“If we didn’t have those American companies here employing hundreds of thousands of people directly, many more indirectly, manufacturing goods to sell to the United States, paying a lot of corporation tax, the Irish economy would look radically different.”

For Mr O’Brien, the spending plans of Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, who along with the Green Party formed the last government, as well as those of the main opposition party Sinn Fein, need to be viewed with caution.

Mr O’Brien said: “It’s very stark to listen to the political debate in the UK, where it’s so much about austerity as it is in many European countries these days, and here in Ireland, where the politicians are promising everything because the public finances are so good. It’s always a mistake for politicians to pretend to voters that the good times will go on forever.

“I’m not saying it’s going to be a recession or worse, but it is a clear and present danger given what the most powerful man in the world has said he is going to do.”

On the campaign trail, the issue of Donald Trump’s plans has increasingly been put to candidates.

At an event in Dundrum, Co Dublin, Sky News asked Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris why the second Trump term is being viewed as such a threat, especially as corporation tax revenues in Ireland increased during the first Trump White House.

Mr Harris said: “Trump 2.0, the second Trump presidency, is not the same as the first for a variety of reasons, including the fact that he’s received a very large mandate.

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“If three US companies left Ireland, it could cost us €10bn (£8bn) in corporation tax. I’m not pre-empting that, I’m not saying it’s going to happen, I’m not predicting it, but that’s the level of risk that our economy is exposed to.”

Asked if Ireland should be scared of the new administration, Mr Harris replied: “No, but we shouldn’t be in any way ignorant to the policy platform that President Trump has put forward.”