Police on Thursday found Wilga’s abandoned Mitsubishi van about 150km from Beacon in the Karroun Hill area, which has been described as remote and inhospitable country.

The first rule of venturing into the Australian outback:

• Never, ever, abandon your vehicle.

You become extremely hard to find wandering into the Australian wilderness. Many people have died this way thinking they’ll ‘walk to the nearest help’, which may be hundreds of kilometres away, through hostile dangerous heat during the day and extreme cold during the night.

Agreed. The books are just as good as the show.