{"id":51661,"date":"2026-11-14T16:34:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T15:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/17-year-old-survives-six-days-alone-in-australian-bushland-by-rationing-food-and-keeping-warm\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T16:34:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T15:34:50","slug":"17-year-old-survives-six-days-alone-in-australian-bushland-by-rationing-food-and-keeping-warm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/17-year-old-survives-six-days-alone-in-australian-bushland-by-rationing-food-and-keeping-warm\/","title":{"rendered":"17-year-old survives six days alone in Australian bushland by rationing food and keeping warm"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 17-year-old boy who survived six days alone in dense bushland <\/a>in the Australian state of Victoria<\/a> did so by staying in one place, rationing his food and keeping warm, rescue experts have said.<\/p>\n

The teenager, named only as William because his surname has not been released, disappeared on 6 November while camping with a friend near Walhalla East, about 180km (about 110 miles) east of Melbourne<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Police said he was last seen at about 4pm near Stoney Creek Road, between the towns of Cowwarr and Walhalla. He was found on Thursday, and officers winched him to safety and reunited him with his mother.<\/p>\n

William had little camping experience, very limited supplies and little protection from the elements as daytime temperatures soared and overnight temperatures plummeted, but he rationed a single packet of chicken chips, kept hydrated, wrapped himself in blankets at night, stayed in one spot in clear view of search crews and sang John Denver’s Take Me Home, Country Roads to keep his spirits up, ABC reported.<\/p>\n

“Given the level of experience he had in the bush, he did absolutely what was appropriate and the best thing to do,” Simin Ngan,<\/p>\n

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A 17-year-old boy who survived six days alone in dense bushland in the Australian state of Victoria did so by staying in one place, rationing his food and keeping warm, rescue experts have said. The teenager, named only as William because his surname has not been released, disappeared on 6 November while camping with a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5599,36,42],"class_list":["post-51661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","tag-australasia","tag-mixtv","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}