Teen survives on urine while lost in Outback
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February 17, 2013, Sunday
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A British teenage backpacker drank contact lens fluid and his own urine to survive three days while lost in Australian Outback scrubland in oppressive summer heat, his mother said yesterday.
Claire Derry reached the bedside of her 18-year-old son, Sam Derry-Woodhead, yesterday at Longreach Hospital in northeast Australia, where he is recovering from dehydration.
"He'd survived on fluid from contact lenses and his own urine," Derry told Ten Network TV. He was sunburned and had lost 15 kilograms, she said.
Derry-Woodhead became lost in scrubland while jogging on Tuesday near Upshot Station, a cattle ranch 90 kilometers from Longreach.
He had been working at the ranch for less than two weeks as a novice cowboy known in Australia as a jackaroo.
Alex Wright, who was part of the crew that rescued Derry-Woodhead, said they were lucky to spot him through the trees 6 kilometers from where he became lost.
"We just happened to see him as he was crossing a clearing," Wright told Ten. "He's been dehydrated. Everything about him, all of his features, looked very sunken."
Claire Derry reached the bedside of her 18-year-old son, Sam Derry-Woodhead, yesterday at Longreach Hospital in northeast Australia, where he is recovering from dehydration.
"He'd survived on fluid from contact lenses and his own urine," Derry told Ten Network TV. He was sunburned and had lost 15 kilograms, she said.
Derry-Woodhead became lost in scrubland while jogging on Tuesday near Upshot Station, a cattle ranch 90 kilometers from Longreach.
He had been working at the ranch for less than two weeks as a novice cowboy known in Australia as a jackaroo.
Alex Wright, who was part of the crew that rescued Derry-Woodhead, said they were lucky to spot him through the trees 6 kilometers from where he became lost.
"We just happened to see him as he was crossing a clearing," Wright told Ten. "He's been dehydrated. Everything about him, all of his features, looked very sunken."
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