Neil Parker would call himself an experienced bushwalker. He claims to have completed some of Australia's toughest hikes. The fact that he is now in a short round of practice almost on the doorstep in the greatest trouble, he described himself as a "worst case scenario".
According to the British "Guardian", referring to the Australian media, Parker had crawled through the wilderness for two days following a fall with severe injuries, until a helicopter finally freed him from his predicament.
In the area around Mount Nebo, northwest of Brisbane, Parker had been traveling alone when he claimed to drop a six-foot-high waterfall. He broke a wrist and - much more problematic - the left leg. "Smooth in two, the entire lower part of my leg was no longer connected," the sheet quotes from a hospital in Brisbane.
Bushwalker crawls for two days with fractured leg and wrist after falling down 6 meter waterfall https://t.co/wZbU4HBVKO
- ABC News (@abcnews) September 17, 2019He had then splinted his leg with his walking sticks, but running was out of the question. By his own admission, Parker also had no way to get help, as he had lost his phone in the fall.
Painkillers in the backpack made the rescue possible
So he chose the only way out of the remote area: Parker crawled off. "I could only advance one meter at a time until it became too much," says Parker. "That leg gets hard when it's not connected to anything," he said.
A search helicopter had not discovered him several times. Over two days, Parker returned about three kilometers in this way until he came to a point where the helicopter could collect him.
His hikers have always made fun of his loaded backpack, Parker reports. He would have done him in the emergency good service. In addition to snacks, this would have been sufficient painkillers to somehow get through the ordeal in the wild.