Missing British backpacker found alive
(15 July 2009)The British backpacker who went missing in Australian bush for 12 days has been found alive.
Jamie Neale, 19, who lost his way in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, was discovered by two "bushwalkers" almost two weeks after going missing.
The teenager's disappearance sparked a full-scale search involving the Australian police, the Rescue Squad, Dog Unit and the Police Air Wing, as well as the Rural Fire Service, State Emergency Service, Volunteer Rescue Association and National Parks and Wildlife Service.
Mr Neale's father, Richard Cass, who flew out to Australia to join the search, was relieved to be reunited with his son but said none of this would have happened if the teenager had taken his mobile phone.
Mr Cass said: "The millions that have been spent on this search, the man hours and woman hours that have gone into it... all because he goes out on a walk without his mobile phone.
"The only teenager in the world who goes on a 10-mile hike and leaves his mobile phone behind.''
Mr Neale is being treated in Katoomba Hospital for dehydration and exposure.
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