Saved after 27 long hours

Makes that Spot and similar systems system's look like a pretty good investment as most seem to be fairly reasonable in price.

I was thinking about the Spot system until that recall a few weeks ago caused me to be a bit cautious.

I suspect the group members were Aboriginal people. As former desert dwellers, Aborigines would walk 40 or more miles a day. Of course people perished in the earlier days when severe conditions developed but if anyone were to survive in trying to walk those distances then the Aborigines were more likely to. Increasingly people have lost their bush skills as everyone is now motorized.
Obviously a wrong decision to walk but if it were truly remote and little traffic then I guess local indigenous people would stand a better chance of making such a long trek.