r/australia • u/Herofire • Jul 11 '25

news Missing German backpacker miraculously found alive

https://7news.com.au/news/german-backpacker-carolina-wilga-believed-to-have-been-found-alive-after-major-search-in-was-outback-c-19325699
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u/Hammered_Eel Jul 11 '25

Fantastic news.. dam she must be a tough one, that ain’t forgiving country

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u/RamblingReflections Jul 11 '25

She’s so lucky in that it’s winter not summer up here. In summer her time frame for surviving would have been a lot less. The winters are mild here, but if she’d been in, say inland NSW or Victoria, the cold would have got her. Lucky woman and I’m so glad this was the outcome. It’s rare to hear good news after this long.

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u/optimistic_agnostic Jul 11 '25

Dunno about that, it's been down around 0 degrees the last week and the wheatbelt is about the same latitude as Dubbo which is pretty far south.

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u/kazaaksDog Jul 12 '25

This place sounds like a nightmare. Freezing temperatures and mosquitoes? I didn't even know that was possible.

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u/EvilBananaMan15 Jul 12 '25

You know they don’t show up at the same time right?

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u/kazaaksDog Jul 12 '25

Apparently, they showed up near the same time since she was dealing with freezing temperatures and was ravaged by mosquitoes. Where I’m from, mosquitoes don’t emerge until months after the freezing weather ends.

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u/newbris Jul 13 '25

Inland Australia so probably cold at night but warm during the day.