andyt andyt:
I do think there was alcohol involved here. How do you get lost when falling down an embankment, for that matter how do you fall down the embankment in the first place?
She probably had to walk a distance to get back to the path since it's an embankment, that's when she probably got lost.It's pretty easy to get lost in a wooded forest if you have no visual bearings, also pretty easy to trip in the forest if you're not carefull. Rocks, boulders, logs. It's one of my nightmares when backpacking on trails, tripping and breaking an ankle being stranded. I'm always carefull. I've been lost before in the woods for about six hours, until I found a dirt road. It's true what they say don't panic. I felt it kicking in when I realized I was lost, had to tell myself to calm down.
My colleagues eighteen year old nephew on the other hand wasn't so lucky during a fall hunting trip. He got separated from the party, got lost died from hypothermia. The QPP gave up the search for him, his relatives found his skeleton two years later.
Learning how to make a shelter isn't that difficult, I would think most people wouldn't need a course on how to do that.
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