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A pair of boozed-up lads found themselves stuck in the snowy Highlands for six hours with their Glasgow taxi driver.

Robbie Muir and Shaun Thornton had just enjoyed a night out in Glasgow when, despite the treacherous conditions, they decided to grab an Uber ride to a pal's cottage in Aberfeldy for £180.

But the joyous, drunken trip turned into misery for the pair - and their driver - when they ended up stuck in the snow and believing "the chances of dying are pretty high".

Sharing the madcap experience on Facebook , which has now gone viral, Robbie wanted to let friends know that he was safe after being AWOL with no phone signal, the Daily Record reports.

He said: "All was going fantastically well...tunes on...bevying in the taxi etc but as we got further up the Highlands the snowier it was getting.

"We then attempt to drive up a road we probably should never have went near but we are f*****g steaming so don't batter an eyelid and let the Turkish driver crack on (nice man).

"Half way into this road we are surrounded in the f*****g alps, we see a car with police tape on it and crash right into it."

At this point, Robbie and Shaun - vodka bottle in hand - set out on foot for around an hour in a desperate attempt to find help.

Despite coming across some aggressive pheasants and an unhappy farmer, their search came to no success.

"After 5-6 hours trapped we started to realise the chances of dying are pretty high so thought f*** it, started putting all our life and soul into moving the taxi," Robbie added.

The pair finally managed to move the taxi, with their driver temporarily demoted to the back seat.

In the video, one of the lads can be seen joking to the driver: "We are f****d. We've been here for five hours."

Back on the road with their driver in the front seat, the pair - in a drunken state of madness - then decided to leap out of the moving vehicle after thinking that they were going too fast, precariously close to cliff edges.

The pair "regretted almost instantly" the move, adding they "had to chase the taxi down a snowy hill in shorts" screaming for their drive to come back.

Thankfully for them, he did, and they finally made it to their friend Vanessa Ingles' cottage in Aberfeldy hours later than originally planned.

Robbie's tale has gone viral on Facebook, with more than 100,000 people viewing his videos.