British and French authorities confirmed on Friday that the teenager found by Accidini this week was the boy who vanished at age 11, when his mother and grandfather took him on what was meant to be a two-week family holiday in Spain.

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In the four days that followed, Alex trekked across the mountains in the French Pyrenees - foraging for what little food he could find from the fields and gardens - until he was found by student Fabien Accidini on December 13 at 3am.

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