Incidents in the mountains
Post-mortem on Czech tramper carried out, track 'unlikely' to close over winter
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/83661242/Post-mortem-on-Czech-tramper-carried-out-track-unlikely-to-close-over-winter
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I'm glad somebody else feels the same way ;)
The journalists reporting on this are either displaying their often typical ignorance of what living of the land for 6 weeks using "bush skills" would actually entail (especially if your injured) or they can smell the bullshit and are being 'sensitive' to the real reasons and giving those concerned a measure of privacy.
6 weeks is getting towards the higher end of the amount of time you can survive without food.
I'm sure that there is more to this story than is being reported by the police / media, presumably due to issues of sensitivity and privacy for those involved.
I don't think you can survive for 6 weeks without food even with possible foraging in that area and still be upright at the end of it, perhaps she started with more food than was reported?
How do you lose a sleeping bag and a plb crossing a river? Was she carrying them by hand?
It don't take 6 weeks to hobble out of that bush. She couldn't make a leg splint or crutch with that extensive bush knowledge.
4 kids who live with family members when the youngest are 5 year old twins. This reeks of an unstable person to me.
Does anyone know Ian Barnes of Cutting Edge Bushcraft?
The Herald's quoting him as commenting that it would have been possible, though obviously extremely demanding. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11795612
We'll probably hear more about this in time.
He's saying, in that area for that length of time, she either would have had to have lived off possum and eel or just sat perfectly still almost the entire time. The former sounds improbable to me with a busted leg and standard hiking gear, and if the latter she would be an emaciated wreck, would she not?
"and if the latter she would be an emaciated wreck, would she not"
As far as I can tell that does sound much as has been described as she was found.
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