What Happened to Him in the Australian Outback Still Baffles People

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As someone who has spent the last 30 years prospecting Western Australia I would not venture far from the coastline.
Once you go inland it takes a whole new level of knowledge to survive.

As a prior search and rescue team member: please, please, PLEASE carry some sort of satellite or radio beacon (EPIRB or similar) on you if you’re going deep into any wilderness! SAR members are at an even higher risk of injury and death trying to find missing people and being able to narrow down the search area makes a MASSIVE difference.

A satellite beacon/tracker can allow your loved ones to keep track of your progress and give searchers a more accurate starting point if it doesn’t move for a concerning amount of time. Radio beacons can be activated in a crisis to let first responders know not only that someone is in trouble but also the direction they are in which makes it much simpler to find them.

There’s something really beautiful about this story! It really speaks to my own journey through life, the older I get the more I just want to withdraw into the wilderness to encounter the world as God intended, relying on his Providence and and my own cooperation with it. Thanks for the story!

As someone with adhd plus abuse in my background, the constant overstimulation and anxiety that come from being in civilization and around people can be very, very difficult; a daily toil just figuring out how to calm down, release the constant stress and tension just to be able to cope. I have so many times, looked at the hills around me, and wished I could just walk, walk away into the hills from everything. You don't have to do that to learn how to cope, you can learn to have peace anywhere, but a part of me craves to be in the middle of nowhere so that my mind won't be on those distractions any more, just trying to survive, and I would have the capacity to just think about how I really feel, and really feel the earth around me and what it means to be here. Nature is SO SOOTHING for people like me; completely different type of stimulation. Because the daily toil can be so, so exhausting and discouraging, like life isn't worth the fight anymore. So I can see how it can feel like trips like these can save them, if they are anything like me. Thankfully, I don't have to find God because I already have him very much in my life, and it's because of him that I am still here. More and more people are actually exhibiting symptoms of adhd without having the disorder because of the digital devices, advertising and go-go attitude in a lot of our societies right now.

Please keep in mind that if these people do have a neuro-divergence, we tend to suffer from things like imposter syndroms and incredibly low self-worth, as well as difficulty understanding basic social cues, and it is very likely that they really just don't think anyone would come looking for them, that anyone would actually miss them, because they feel barely there in the first place. It is something their brain does, not something they do on purpose.
Okay, yeah, I thought he would feel terrible when he learned about the trouble he caused.
Oh no that happened to my car with a mouse😂

The fact he dug randomly and find water in the desert is a gift from the ancestors which make up that sand he dug. 🤷

Very nicely done. I enjoyed the story.

Robert gropel knew what happens when u become lethargic oneverest. U stop & u go back. He wanted to summit. Obviously more than saving his wife's life. To say otherwise & cry is such BS

U should do a video on ROBERT GROPEL. THATS A TRUE BETRAYAL. I LOST RESPECT FOR THE IN-LAWS WHEN THEY ALLOWED HIM IN THEIR HOME AFTER. MY FATHER-IN-LAW would tell me if I dont bring his daughter back alive I better die with her.He doesn't want to go to prison un-aliving me. Essentially in his mind its the least I can do.

From an Australian and has travelled My country for eleven years i can say this man is very lucky but also very very stupid. This land will eat you if you try to cross her heart on foot. I know this as not all my years travelling was on tyres. Theres a reason the true natives here call parts of it the Never Never. You mostly never come back. 👏 Well done to this man.

There are ways to achieve what he wanted to achieve, responsibly.
Assuming he does not have a mental illness or disordet, this was extremely irresponsible. It's all well and good if he wants to risk his life, but he has no right to make people worry and waste S&R resources.

This one made me angry, sorry. I have no respect for people like this.

Stupid man. Let's go walking off into the desert and find myself. But a book, sit under a tree in your backyard instead and dont waste everyones time.

He went for a "walk about"
Ive done it, isolation and quiet helps with clarity and focus.

As an Australian, I cackled as soon as you said he wanted to travel the great sandy dessert on a bike. Just no. Pure delusion. Know your limits, you gonna die.

As a West Australian I remember when this happened. I live down the road in Hedland.
I try not to be too opinionated but this was a clear cut case of a random guy trying to gain fame.

Back in 2000, when I was a 20 year old Canadian prairies gal backpacking with my cousin we became stranded along this same stretch of road - between Broome and Fitzroy Crossing. It was summer, well into the 40s and our car broke down. We waited a looong time for any car to come along and a lot longer for someone who was willing to stop and help us. It didn’t take much time for us to feel weak and awful. It’s such a desolate area, I really can’t believe he survived so long out there.

20km a day in that country is bloody good going

Robert wasn't Outback, he was in the Never Never country. 🇦🇺

Crickey! I’d never put ear buds anywhere near my brain.. I don’t even hold my phone to my ear 😂

As a Aussie im impressed be survived

Pro tip: before embarking in a dangerous or deadly trip into the wildernesses to find yourself, take a few months of therapy first.

I'd prefer you not cover Chris McCandless (sp?), simply because his story has already been done to death, and you excel at covering events that haven't gotten much if any exposure.

I'm not sure what people don't get, but death wasn't apart of the plan at any point. He didn't call search and rescue, they volunteered, and when they found him it was over. He did this to find himself, and he also showed people like me that there are others who use the same method as me, and it got him through the fucking desert. You have to had gone through the same type of journey as him to understand the underlying message and goddamn it's nice to see confirmations in places you don't expect.

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I love this channel. Your storytelling style is simple yet full of insight, and I love your off-the-cuff comments. Please keep um' coming. I read the book by Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, and saw the movie. But please do a version of your own. Thank you!!

Amazing story. Thanks!🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾

Going unprepared into the Aussie desert is possibly one of the stupidest things you could do.

Robert is a very self centred, selfish person, not very spiritual at all.

Weirdly I've never heard of this, but what a crazy story! Thank you for sharing. I've never been to Australia but I do know that the Outback is not to be trifled with 😅

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Yaaaay! She's back!

I’ve just found this channel and I’m really enjoying it. Although I’m only 4 minutes in I can’t concentrate because I can’t stop looking at the dog. I’m trying to work out if it’s real. It’s gorgeous. Yay 6 minutes in an£ I can see the gorgeous doggie in the backyard. ❤

Just found you... I love that you're from the Yukon, I've always wanted to go and take in its beauty!!

Remember this story next time you feel like complaining about 'trying to lose weight'.

Robert pull off the biggest G UP. I bet he got a good paid off.

He went walkabout!

If you want to know essential nucleac truth, you need to get away from a society gone crazy. I have a place in the wilderness where I stay and the wildlife actually seems to empathise. I have been visited by a curious King Brown, a Sea Eagle, and even crocs. My next sojourn will be for a few years. So, yes, I can relate to Robert, sans the bible, which seems counterintuitive to me. But then he's American and I'm Australian. The bush is our bible.

Chris was stupid.

Peace is a property we are designed to carry. Wisdom includes pursuit of peace in creation.

Interesting comparison with Chris McCandless, he was stupid and unlucky. This guy was stupid and lucky.

This man claimed to have divine messages telling him to do this. He ended up hopelessly lost and was surviving on a tiny amount of water and was so starved and dehydrated he ate some sturts desert pea flowers. They had so much sugar in them it sent him into glycemic shock. He was literally 1hour from dying when he was rescued.

Well done .
Thankyou for not calling Australia "down under"
I'm pleased for his family he waa found .

Giday first one ive watched and i ,loved it thank you.

I've done countless wilderness treks as a spiritual journey. These trips have provided a context for assessing the value and meaning of society and my relation to it. I've done this enough times to truly come home.

I swear to this day that Christopher I picked up in Canada at a T in the rode and gave him a ride. I had driven the alcan hwy many times back then.i had given him a fruit cake that was given to me for my travel. He rode with me for almost a day,

He wasn't even in a bad part of Australia.

Love your channel, great find!

"any proof for this delusional tale ?