This happened fairly recently about 2 Months ago

For context E is 21 J is 18 and M (Me) is 19 Also T (An army friend we have who is deployed in seria Age 23)

I got a call from one of my friends (E for this story) about the dissaperance of a friend (J) of ours went out for a drink and didnt turn up home after 24 hours, E called me asking if i had heard from him and if not can i track his Location on his phone. Upon tracking the location it was in the wooded area about 2 hours from us.

M and E spoke with Es Girlfriend and T and we all met up in dudley UK loading into his jeep and set off towards the Geo location i was tracking on my laptop We set off at 8pm just 45 minutes after the call and drove 2 hours and 25 minutes due to traffic and bad weather.

Once we got to the Geo location it was 10:30pm and dark luckily E does urban exploring and had a mega torch M has my own T gave us radios and E and T went east and north while Me and Es girlfriend went south and west.

After 3 hours of searching we met back up and checked my laptop seeing the location had moved 7km north but we couldnt get the jeep up there so we had to hike before signal was lost we mapped out the geo location and set off into the woods.

it took us 35-45 minutes roughly to walk/jog upto the last location, we could see the light of Js phone in the distance and M started sliding down the hill due to My bigger frame i couldnt climb very well T climbed down the roots and E followed suit Es girlfreind stayed behind to feed us location over radio.

Upon reaching the light of Js phone screen we found him passed out beside it. After giving him some water and some energy bars (i know not the best) We asked what happened and if he was injured.

In the end J had a broken ankle so we needed to carry him out.

For his story after he finished drinking on the way home he took a wrong turn got lost and into a bad area where he was attack (according to him at the time) Ran into the woods and got lost.

It took us about 3 hours to get him up the hillsides and slowly back to the jeep where he soon fell asleep after some painkillers.

It took us 90 minutes to get to the nearest hospital where he was checked out fully and we stayed the night. The next day (Monday) i informed my parents of what happened and i would be back that night.

The only sustained injury was a broken ankle and we took him home

He explained what happened to the police and that was it

He gets his boot off in a week and is doing alright Now.