A police search was mounted but proved fruitless. While he claimed he “had a great time”, his parents certainly didn’t, reporting him missing after three months. “I needed to actually get out in the middle of nowhere where I just couldn’t have a smoke,” he said later in an ABC radio interview. This might not quite qualify as a survival story, but back in 2000, 43-year-old Edward Furtak got it into his head that a good way to give up smoking would be to drive his ancient converted fire engine into the desert and camp by himself for six months. Where there’s smoke, there’s a fire engine Apparently he’d thought it would take about three days to traverse the 1700km CSR, 900 sand dunes and all. By the time the team returned, Hardt was drinking the salt water from Lake Disappointment. Some fellow tourists discovered Hardt and were able to leave some more water while they trundled off to alert a rescue team.
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He’d heard about the challenge the CSR presented to outback drivers on a German TV show, which must have been missing a few salient survival details because Hardt showed up by himself with hardly any water, no phone or GPS, but carrying ten litres of beer and a packet of bikkies. In October 2002, 36-year-old German man Kim Hardt sat alone in his 4WD for three days after getting bogged at Lake Disappointment on the rugged Canning Stock Route. He survived in this fashion for ten weeks, before being discovered and rescued by two passing station hands – 60kg lighter, lucky to be alive.Ĭheck out his book Left for Dead.
He then wandered aimlessly for ten days before setting up camp under an old cattle trough beside a dam, which allowed him a constant flow of water and a diet of toads and lizards. That fateful day ended with Megee being drugged by his passenger and left for dead in a ditch, covered by a tarpaulin weighted down with rocks. Left for Dead, the true story of Ricky Megee’s outback survival.
When 35-year-old Ricky Megee from Brisbane was heading to Port Hedland in late January 2006, he stopped to help a group of stranded motorists near the WA/NT border and agreed to ferry the smallest of the group to the nearest town. Rescuers said it was this fact alone that saved the man, which proves how important it is to be well prepared in the food, water and GPS stakes before venturing into the unknown. Once within mobile phone range – which is pretty incredible because the reception is very dodgy out there – he managed to alert rescuers by getting a message to his family back in Romania, including his GPS location. He ran out of food and water on day three and had to head sluggishly back. In January 2009, an experienced Romanian hiker, who’d previously trekked through the likes of South America and Asia, got a nasty fright when he became lost for six days during a 45km walk near Uluru. Uluru (Ayers Rock), Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory, Central Australia. 100 Things To Do In Australia You’ve Never Heard Of.
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