Chips, creek water and Take Me Home, Country Roads: how an Australian teenager survived six nights in the bush
<p>William, 17, says ‘nights were pretty cold’ and he ‘honestly didn’t think’ he’d survive</p><p>A teenage boy who <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/nov/12/missing-teenager-walhalla-found-alive-australian-bush">survived almost a week</a> lost in dense Australian bushland sang John Denver’s Take Me Home, Country Roads as he held out hop