On her way to her mother’s house, a woman got lost in a forest. There she stranded with her car. It happened in Australia, where she was finally rescued after five days. During that time, he described, his body shut down.

The story has gone viral thanks to the video showing how they found it. The woman found the strength to raise her arms and be seen from an airplane flying over the wooded area.

What happened? Lillian Ip, a 48-year-old Australian, was driving her car through a forested area in the southeastern state of Victoria, Telemundo 47 reported. She said her vehicle “got stuck in mud”.

He ended up in a dead end after a wrong turn and his vehicle got stuck in the mud.

BBC news

To add to the drama of the emergency, he was in a place with no cell phone coverage.

It happened on Sunday, April 30, 2023. When the parents saw at home that Lillian had not arrived, they reported the disappearance.

How he survived in the woods

Lillian was located on Friday, May 5… five days after her car was vandalized.

– What did you eat during that time?, they asked the authorities.

– “What he had in the car was a bottle of wine,” an officer replied.

The only liquid Lillian, who doesn’t drink alcohol, carried was a bottle of wine as a gift for her mother, so that helped her survive.

Martin Torpey, Police Commander of Wodonga

He wanted to share that wine and some goodies with his mother. Lillian, who they say doesn’t drink alcohol, had to drink wine in order not to become completely dehydrated.

The woman was about 60 kilometers from the nearest town, according to Telemundo 47, and told her rescuers that she was unable to walk due to health problems.

After being evaluated, she returned to her home in Melbourne, Victoria.

“I Thought I Was Dying”

Words from the survivor were published on BBC News: “I thought I was going to die there. My whole body shut down on Friday,” she said, adding that she was “on the verge of giving up.”

When she lost hope of being found alive, she wrote a letter to her family saying she loved them, they reported.

That medium reported that emergency services discovered it on Friday while flying over the forest.

When he saw the rescuers, he thought of water and something else. “Thank God the policewoman had a cigarette,” the woman told 9News Australia, BBC News reported.