But now we just want to get him home and be with the rest of the family and enjoy it, but also grieve."Liam was found on a hillside 40 miles from his home in Old Colwyn by a 10-year-old boy, Matthew Williams.Dr Duncan Cameron, the consultant paediatrician who tended Liam, said he was doing remarkably well, considering what he had suffered. He showed signs of exposure and was grubby and distressed, but had been wide awake."It remains uncertain how long he has been out. He clearly shows signs of being out in the open and there were signs of dehydration," the doctor said. "His condition is possibly consistent with it being two to three days, but we can't be precise."He must be a very tough kid. There were just a few cuts and scratches where he had been scrambling around in the heather," Dr Cameron said.Liam was so healthy he could probably have survived a while longer, but a child enduring a fourth or fifth day without food or drink would become sick, he said.Although the boy would have been aware of his ordeal, Dr Cameron said he would probably recover psychologically quickly because of his young age.A post-mortem examination revealed that Mr Evans died from a fractured skull that could have been caused by a road accident some time between Thursday night and Friday.Detective Superintendent Eric Jones said Liam appeared to have been left unscathed by the crash after the car careered 150 yards down the slope and stopped on the edge of a 200ft precipice.His survival was "a freak of nature", Det Supt Jones said. He was very, very dirty and he was a bit unsure of what was going on.

But she said the relief was coloured with sadness that Liam's grandfather, Gwilym, 61, was dead.Mr Evans's wrecked car was spotted on Sunday where it had left the road near the Horseshoe Pass in North Wales, three days after he offered to look after the little boy for a short period and then disappeared.As police tried to piece together Mr Evans's last moments before the crash, Liam was discharged from Glan Clwyd Hospital near Abergele.Speaking for the first time since her son was found, Mrs Evans, 28, said: "He was bewildered. THE BABY who was rescued from a mountainside after going missing with his grandfather may have spent three nights alone in the remote spot alongside his dead relative, it emerged yesterday. Liam Evans, aged 13 months, was in "remarkable condition", doctors said, but could not have lasted much longer without food or drink. Ruth Evans, Liam's mother, cuddled him yesterday as she told how the family feared that they might never see him again. Before the crash, Mr Fossett, 54, a stockbroker from Chicago, became the first person to cross the Indian and South Atlantic Oceans by balloon. Steve made arrangements before the flight that if two of his emergency locators went off, then he was in real trouble. I just breathed a sigh of relief when I heard he'd been found I feel the weight of the world is off my shoulders I was terrified."The journey was not all in vain.

The Australian Hercules and Orions were circling over him late yesterday.At the Solo Spirit's mission control centre in St Louis, Missouri, Marie Singleman, one of the staff monitoring its journey, said yesterday: "He's got to be scared to death. Brian Hill, of the rescue centre, said: "We were able to direct the aircraft and ships to within six kilometres of where he was."The Atlanta, skippered by Laurie Piper, was on the way to Australia when a radio ham in Vanuatu, the archipelego north of the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, raised the alert.The Atlanta was pulled into an international rescue effort that included an Australian air force Hercules and two Orion aircraft, a commercial container ship, the Papuan Chief, French military aircraft and a New Zealand tanker.The French aircraft dropped a raft with food and water to Mr Fossett, to which he transferred yesterday from the precariously floating gondola of his balloon.After boarding the Atlanta, he was expected to be transferred to the New Zealand ship, which is to take him to Townsville, in north Queensland, later this week. He was lucky it happened so close to Australia and not in the middle of the Pacific, where he could have been stranded for days.The Canberra rescue centre picked up emergency calls from two beacons at 2am yesterday, almost as soon as the balloon hit the water. Reports reaching Australia's search and rescue centre in Canberra yesterday indicated that Solo Spirit was struck by lightning as it headed over the Coral Sea. On Saturday, he passed over the coast of Western Australia above Geraldton after crossing the Indian Ocean. He spent the weekend crossing the continent in record time, helped by strong winds that sped him at up to 140 miles an hour.But on Sunday night, after Fossett left Australia over Gladstone, in Queensland, disaster struck. He dropped thousands of yards into what are believed to be uncharted waters about 500 miles north-east of Australia on Sunday night, ending his hopes of becoming the first balloonist to circumnavigate the globe non-stop. An Australian yacht, the Atlanta, picked him up and reported he was in good spirits.He had been hoping to land later this week in Argentina, from where he took off in Solo Spirit, on 8 August.