Mount Buffalo National Park, 1982. Four of us left the camping area to watch the sunset. I stopped to take a photo and lost the trail. Went running after the others, slipped and rolled down a cliff, landed upright, but felt both ankles pop and break. (The whole park is Australian bush around granite boulders and cliffs). The others thought I had gone back to camp and didn’t report me missing. Next morning the group packed up and hiked to the next camp site, no one noticed I was missing until that evening, so they looked in the wrong place. I crawled to a creek and fell down the gully, drank snow melt, no one heard me shouting and crying. Eventually they gave me up for dead. Three German tourists found me by accident three weeks later, one went to get help. I got a ride in a helicopter, in hospital for two weeks while they fed me through a drip. The school gave me a payout through their insurance on the condition we didn’t sue them. I’m almost 60 now and my ankles still hurt and grind and pop.
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Three and a half weeks, 25 days. More than forty years ago I was lost in the wilderness on a school camp. Broke both ankles and couldn’t walk.
The writing on the window is the wrong way around.
The people that were born there each had a 100% chance of being born there. Actually, that’s true for all areas.
“We’re with you, Mister the Kid!”
nohup him now before it’s too late!
Depends where the bombs land.
Does ordering groceries online work for you?
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Yes, Wikipedia says:
Rutherford named the song after the film Silent Running "because I remembered that film so well, and our song had a spacey feel to it."
Couldn’t eat anything. Story below.