Rescue Crew - British Teen Survives 3 Days Lost In Outback

British backpacker Sam Derry-Woodhead is located within a test helicopter while your dog can be were known in order to around Longreach, Australia.(Photo: Angus Emmott, AP)

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Sam Derry-Woodhead, 18, is usually recovering from dehydration

He lowered thirty-three pounds when lost, his the mother says

He drank lens substance and his individual urine to survive

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) A British adolescent backpacker drank lens smooth and his personal urine to live through a few days lost around Australian Outback scrubland with oppressive summer time heat, his or her the mother explained Saturday.

Claire Derry climbed to that plan involving her 18-year-old son, Sam Derry-Woodhead, upon Saturday at Longreach Hospital around northeast Australia, when he's regaining out of dehydration.

She said the lady anticipated the particular most severe when arriving from London's Heathrow Airport to help Longreach right until the lady was instructed throughout a stopover inside the east seacoast urban center involving Brisbane which people from a helicopter possessed winched the woman's daughter to health and safety on Friday.

"He'd survived on water from lenses and his / her own urine," Derry told Ten Network TV. He appeared to be sunburned and experienced lost thirty-three pounds, she said.

Derry-Woodhead became lost with scrubland whilst jogging Tuesday near Upshot Station, a new cattle ranch 55 miles coming from Longreach.

He ended up being employed at that ranch with regard to a lot less than a couple several weeks as a newbie cowboy recognised within Australia like a jackaroo.

Temperatures reached 104 amounts when about 50 searchers scoured this rugged terrain around several days. Two searchers received treatment for warmth stroke.

Alex Wright, who seem to was component of that crew that rescued Derry-Woodhead, reported these people ended up blessed that will identify him from the trees four miles coming from where he / she grew to be lost.

"We simply took place to determine him since they appeared to be traversing some sort of clearing," Wright explained to Ten. "He's recently been dehydrated. Everything about him, most of their features, considered really sunken."

George Thomson, a different relief crew member, said Derry-Woodhead thanked these after appearing winched aboard the particular heli as well as called for a popsicle.