Here's a good news story. An English tourist missing in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia has been found after being lost for 12 days.

Here's a local media link to the story.

He went on a pretty straight forward day walk and some how got lost for 12 days. SAR had virtually given up on him, believing that he had died.

His father had flown out from England just after he went missing and after so long without a trace, he was actually at the airport about to get on a plane back home when the police sent him a text message with the good news.

Edited by lushy on 07/15/2009 19:31:55 MDT.

Always good news when they still have a pulse by the time SAR show up. Could've turned out otherwise from the sound of things. He's one lucky lad.

I guess the weather there across the ditch has been a lot better than it has been here. We just lost (as in dead) two experienced hikers due to exposure and disorientation in thigh deep snow. They were well equipped. I don't think sleeping under their jackets and eating seeds would have saved them. That's one lucky teenager!

http://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/65337/search-called-missing-trampers

http://therucksack.tripod.com/MiBSAR/MiBSAR.htm

All three in a small area of a remote part of the U.P.
We hiked the section of the North Country Trail where Joe Clewley went missing over the 4th. Very Eerie knowing that.
We have some good people looking for them :)
The Michael's site has a wealth of good information about extreme backcountry tripping.