His name is Tamra McBeath-Riley and he has survived 12 days in a remote area of Australia. It all started on November 19 when Tamra and two other friends, Claire Hockridge and Phu Tran, went on a car trip from Alice Springs. In the middle of the crossing, the car was stranded in the riverbed.
For the next three days, the group remained next to the car, pushing it to try to get it out , but they failed. When they concluded that they could not get out of there in the car, they decided to split up to seek help. Twelve days later, Tamra, 52, was found alive and severely dehydrated, not far from the car. His other two friends are still missing.
From the hospital to which she was transferred, Tamra has told her story, visibly excited, that today collect several local media. "We tried to get the car out but the channel was too big," he explained. During the day it was so hot that the three friends were sheltering in a small hole that they had dug under the car. At night, they got inside the vehicle to protect themselves from the cold and hugged Raya, Tamra's dog who also traveled with them, to get warm.
They finished all the water they had in the car and drank some small bottles of vodka, cookies and some cans of noodles. Then they located a hole in the ground through which water came out. They boiled and drank it. "It was not drinking water but it served to keep them alive," police officer Pauline Vicary later told the Australian public news network.
Without coverage and without water, the group decided to divide. Claire and Phu walked north to try to reach the highway. They had maps and six liters of water that they had separated. They decided that they would walk at night and that it was safer to go together. Meanwhile, Tamra decided not to get too far from the area since he was afraid that his dog would not survive a long walk. She was finally located a kilometer and a half from the car, after a person reported that she had seen tire marks in the area.
Tamra McBeath-Riley was taken to the hospital very dehydrated while the local police launched a device with helicopters to try to locate her two friends, lost in an area known as "outback", the remote, depopulated and semi-arid interior of Australia , in whose landscape there are dunes, geological formations and large ranches.
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