After nearly two harrowing weeks lost in one of Australia’s most unforgiving landscapes, 26-year-old German backpacker Carolina Wilga has been found alive in what police described as a “fragile condition.”
The traveler was discovered Friday afternoon walking along a bush track near Karroun Hill Nature Reserve, more than 185 miles northeast of Perth.
The discovery brings some respite to the growing concern from both her family and authorities, and comes 12 days after Wilga was last seen thanks to a large-scale search operation that included homicide detectives and aerial surveillance.
