Hotelier stuck in a lift for four days A HOTELIER says skills learned on a military survival course allowed him to survive four days trapped in the lift of his Austrian hotel. A friend delivering bread eventually alerted rescue services on Friday after noticing post piled up outside the hotel in Bad Gastein near Salzburg. The 58-year-old man had forgotten his mobile phone on his desk. His repeated desperate cries for help went unheeded and attempts to escape through the lift roof failed. The Swedish-born man is now "in good health, telling officers that a survival course with the Swedish military had set him in good stead," police said.