Lilian Ip, 48, was on her way to her family’s house on vacation. I was crossing a dense forest when he was wrong and his car, somewhat dilapidated, was left stuck in an almost impassable stretch sixty kilometers the nearest town. Nor would he have been able to (try to) go through them: due to health problems, he has trouble walking. It was going to be a return visit, so I had no provisions.

However, they passed five days. i thought i was going to die, my body had collapsed”, she explained about the same day that, finally, the rescue helicopters -equipped with advanced sensors- found her. For this reason, she explained, she received her rescuers almost euphoric: “Oh , if God! The first thing I asked for was water and a cigarette.”

During all that time he was subsisting thanks to the gift basket that he brought to his mother. Inside, lollipops, juice… and a bottle of wine even though she doesn’t drink. “No, never, but I had no choice,” he says after stating bluntly that the taste was “shit.”

It was his relatives, with whom he now melts into relieved hugs, precisely the ones who reported his disappearance. Thanks to the technology Yet the tenacity of Australian Civil Protection this story has a happy ending. Also to your “great common sense —for staying by her car and pulling what she had on hand to stay hydrated and warm up—Police emphasize.