Starvation in the Outback: Aussie Bushwhacking

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In northern Australia, two friends venture deep into the bush on the lookout for a mysterious serpent. But after weeks trekking through desert plains and ancient jungle, Will and Geoff’s plans start falling apart. Out of supplies, with the weather and the wildlife against them, they must find a way to stave off starvation… without becoming food themselves… A Noiser production, written by Macalister Bexon. For more on this story check out Swimming With Crocodiles by Will Chaffey. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward, let us know. Drop us an email at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.4	somewhere in the outback of Northwestern Australia.
0:40.0	A crescent moon silhouettes the gnarled trunks of scattered eucalyptus trees, the only feature
0:46.6	in a dark desert plain which stretches out for miles in all directions.
0:58.0	Aside from the occasional howl of a dinger or screech of a passing bat, the only sound comes from the tramp of blistered, tired feet, worn boots stumbling over the cracked mud.
1:08.4	Two men, both warringly thin, stagger slowly through the night.
1:15.0	Under the faint flicker of his dying head torch,
1:18.0	19-year-old Will Chafee can just make out the ridges of the abandoned track they're following.
1:25.4	Exhaustion, first, and above all else hunger have left him in a zombie-like state, awake and walking, but just barely.
1:38.0	The night air offers some respite from the heat of the day,
1:42.1	and it won't be long before the sun rises again.
1:46.2	How much longer can it go on like this?
1:48.8	The mental strain, the anxiety of not knowing exactly what we were going to do except follow the track.
1:56.0	That anxiety was pretty intense.
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