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An interesting story today on the local news;
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/man-lost-in-outback-loses-60kg/2006/04/13/1144521444160.html
It seems that there is absolutely no one doubt that this guy has survived for 10 weeks in a remote desert location. There does seem to be some doubt about *how* he came to be left in this dire situation. Details released by police are very sketchy, but it seems that he claims to have been bashed and left for dead on the side of an outback road, and subsequently awoke, walked, and managed to locate a dam on a cattle property (cattle properties in that part of the world are as big as Texas), but the police don't seemed convinced - however no more details are forthcoming. Regardless of how he came to be there, I'd have to say he has survived what would kill most people- his weight at the beginning was 108 kg (that's 238 pounds for you US guys) and weight when rescued was a phenomenally light 45kg (99 pounds).
He apparently survived by drinking water from the dam, and eating dam critters such as leaches, frogs and grasshoppers.
Since I weigh in at 75 kg (165 pounds), I do wonder if I were in the same position how I would have fared - if I'd lost the same amount of weight I would have only weighed 12kgs at the time of rescue!!! - I don't think so!!
No knife, no nothing, he was just lucky to find a dam and displayed real perseverance (plus he was farely hefty when he got 'caught out')!
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/man-lost-in-outback-loses-60kg/2006/04/13/1144521444160.html
It seems that there is absolutely no one doubt that this guy has survived for 10 weeks in a remote desert location. There does seem to be some doubt about *how* he came to be left in this dire situation. Details released by police are very sketchy, but it seems that he claims to have been bashed and left for dead on the side of an outback road, and subsequently awoke, walked, and managed to locate a dam on a cattle property (cattle properties in that part of the world are as big as Texas), but the police don't seemed convinced - however no more details are forthcoming. Regardless of how he came to be there, I'd have to say he has survived what would kill most people- his weight at the beginning was 108 kg (that's 238 pounds for you US guys) and weight when rescued was a phenomenally light 45kg (99 pounds).
He apparently survived by drinking water from the dam, and eating dam critters such as leaches, frogs and grasshoppers.
Since I weigh in at 75 kg (165 pounds), I do wonder if I were in the same position how I would have fared - if I'd lost the same amount of weight I would have only weighed 12kgs at the time of rescue!!! - I don't think so!!
No knife, no nothing, he was just lucky to find a dam and displayed real perseverance (plus he was farely hefty when he got 'caught out')!
