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A tourist who wandered for six days through the Australian desert saved his life when he managed to contact his family in Romania on his mobile phone.
Police say the man is lucky to be alive after setting off from Yulara, near Uluru, on a 45km trek to Lake Amadeus last week.
He took just four litres of water with him, which he ran out of three days into the hike.
Exhausted and dehydrated, the man became lost when he decided to walk back to Yulara.
But he did manage to get to within mobile phone range and raised the alarm, contacting his relatives in Romania to tell them that he was lost in the desert.
