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full screen After being missing for just over a week, a Swedish-Australian woman has been found alive in Kosciuszko National Park, along the so-called Nungar Creek trail, southwest of Canberra. Photo: Anders Humlebo/TT
After being missing for more than a week, a Swedish-Australian woman has been found alive and bitten by a snake.
The woman was found taken and injured in the Snowy Mountains in the state of New South Wales in Australia, several media reports.
She had a broken foot and appears to have been bitten by a snake, and was also severely hypothermic. The woman was first treated on site before being transported to hospital. Her condition is now stable.
The 48-year-old woman, an award-winning photographer who, among other things, photographs wild horses, was born and raised in Sweden. She moved to Australia 20 years ago and has several times hiked and photographed in the area of Kosciuszko National Park where she disappeared.
– She is incredibly lucky to have survived. She has obviously had a really tough time, says police officer Toby Lindsay according to the BBC.
One of the volunteers who participated in the search for the woman describes the area where they searched as very difficult to access.
– The vegetation is incredibly dense. You probably can’t see more than five meters in front of you, he says to Australian ABC.