Are You -- Lost? More Souls Who Came Back

Liang Sheng Yueh

 
21-year-old Liang Sheng Yueh and his 19-year-old girlfriend Liu Chen Chun, were hiking in Nepal in 2017.Tragically, they both fell into a deep ravine and survived the fall. Unfortunately, his girlfriend died a few weeks after they were stranded at the bottom of a lonely ravine.

He survived by licking salt and drinking whatever water he could scrounge from his surroundings. Untlimately, he was found because the circling vultures above lead the searchers to his site. He lost 60 pounds of weight and had to be carried out. They say a person cannot live without water in 48 hours, and he managed to eat snow around him. This is one lucky motherfucker.

Shannon Leah Fraser

 

In September 2014, Shannon Leah Fraser from Queensland, Australia was swimming in a remote swimming hole with her boyfriend, when she got into an argument and decided to storm off into the deep rainforest. Unfortuantely for Shannon, this forest was deep and she quickly lost her orientation and wandered 30 miles away from the campsite.  

Miraculously, she turned up 17 days later, covered in countless bug bites, 3rd degree sunburns, deep splinters in her feet, and many, many painful welts. Her decision to move upland into the mountainous region was almost a fatal mistake: Nobody would look for her up there.She lost 32 pounds during the ordeal and survived by eating insects, and drinking dirty creek water.

On day 16, on the edge of giving up on all hope, she approached an Aboriginal burial ground and h eard a voice in her heard say "Only you can do it". Ravaged by Wait-a-while vines, they inflicted heavy damage to her legs and feet. 

The searchers spent an accumulated 800 hours before she finally managed to find a ribbon they left for her to guide her back to almost the exact spot she left in the first place. Judging by her starting size, I'm guessing her body lived off the extra fat and managed to squeeze all her calories from it. Her children were escstatic to see her, and she went into surgery to have the wood splinters removed from her body. 

Wait-A-While:

It hangs from the canopy of the rainforest with prickles on its thin stem. Initially it may look harmless, it’s only when you get tangled in it and try to walk away that you realise how it got it’s name.Wait-a-while vines have hooked spines on them so if your skin or clothes get caught on it as you walk past it literally hooks onto you.

So the best course of action if you find yourself hooked up is to stop walking, ‘wait-a-while’ and disentangle yourself. If you keep walking it can scratch your skin and rip clothes.

Sometimes its just better to chill the fuck out.