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How did a seventeen-year-old survive six days lost in Victoria's bush?
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He vanished on a camping trip near Walhalla, a former gold town east of Melbourne, after walking off for camping gear in shorts and work boots.
Walhalla
He disappeared on Friday, 6 November. An ABC police reconstruction says he fell down a slope. His mother said he could no longer move, so he stayed put until Thursday, 12 November, when a police helicopter spotted him in a dry creek bed.
- 6 NovemberDisappeared near Walhalla
- 12 NovemberFound alive by helicopter
He lived on a bag of chips and creek water, wrapping towels around himself against the cold nights and using them for shade by day. According to the investigation, he spent the last 48 hours trapped in the creek bed. Police found him exhausted and unable to walk, but talking and in good spirits, with scratches and severe sunburn, and took him to hospital for observation.
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