By Alex Greig
A man has found his lost iPhone that was buried in snow in the Vermont ski fields after a dogged search with a metal-detector a week after he dropped it.
When the unthinkable happened to Michael Wong, 28 - losing his iPhone after wiping out on the slopes - he wasn't prepared to accept it was gone.
Armed with a metal detector, New Yorker Wong returned to the scene of his devastating loss a week later and after a half-hour search, found the phone, lying beneath a few inches of snow.
Wong's friends had been skeptical about his chances, but Wong believed he and his device would be reunited, so he filmed the search on a Go Pro camera to prove it.
Wong first realized he'd lost the phone when he and his friends piled back into their car after a day on the slopes and all he found in his pocket was melting snow.
They returned the following day, but the search was fruitless.
'It was just too crazy by hand, and we didn't really know exactly where to look,' Wong said.
He'd returned to New York City and forked out for a brand-new iPhone when the idea hit him: 'I said, "Hey, you know what, maybe I'll try to find it on the slopes with a metal detector,'" he told Good Morning America.
Wong says he and his friends had already booked a trip back to Vermont for the following weekend, so he bought a metal detector on Amazon and took it with him.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2572447/The-moment-skier-lost-iPhone-ski-field-metal-detector.htmlWhite expanse: Wong searched the area where he believed he'd tumbled from his skis the week before
'People were making fun of me even on the drive up, already rolling their eyes because we were jammed in the car with all our luggage and I had this crammed in the backseat,' he said of the metal detector.
But as his video shows, the search was far from fruitless.
After a mere half-hour of scanning the snow with the metal detector, there was a telltale beep.
Wong pinpoints the spot and digs his hand into the snow, uncovering his beloved iPhone.
His joyous laughter is like that of a man rescued from a desert island.
Determined: Wong spent half an hour combing the snow for the iPhone
Beep! The metal detector made its telltale sound and Wong began digging
'I found it!': Wong is overjoyed after uncovering the device
He skied down the slope to tell his friends of his success.
'Did you lose a diamond ring?' asks one skier who overhears that Wong has found something he lost.
'No, I found my iPhone,' he says to laughter from a crowd of skiers.
'Everyone has been doubting me all week!'
Prized possession: One skier thought Wong had lost a diamond ring and was amused to hear it was a phone
After putting the phone in rice to draw all the moisture from it ('I've got a bag of rice in the car,' Wong tells onlookers), it turned on, good as new.
'The next morning I woke up and everyone was like, "Well does it work? Let's give it a shot,"' Wong told Good Morning America. 'I turned it on right away and everyone was like, "Oh, my God."'
Wong plans to return the new iPhone he bought.
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