People throughout history have proven to be resilient. To have great survival power of their own, alone or in groups.

The same I have read of people who have been alone and have fought for their life until they made it and others who have given up and the findings of what they lived through in their last hours have shown what they went through.

I read about a lady over 65 who wanted to go hiking. She took one trail and her husband took another. After two days according to what they had agreed would be the reunion did not happen. The authorities were alerted and began the rescue with many members of civil protection, parks, and knowledgeable groups of the place. By air and by land, but the lady never appeared. They stopped looking for her after about 15 days.

Over the years, I think I read that more than 10 years passed before someone found a camping tent inside a body.

That is how they collected all the details of what happened to the lady and they say that she decided to leave the road to go to relieve herself. She left no signs on the road when she left the path and then when she wanted to return she did not succeed.

She kept going around and around, unable to find a place she recognized. She ran out of provisions and decided to run out of strength, food, and water and stay inside her tent.

She wrote some things while she could and among so many things she left the information of her relatives so they could send her remains to her, someday when they found her remains. She had lost all hope. She recounted what happened. There came a time when she became desperate and totally lost hope.

She was apparently alive for more than 20 days, the time they were searching for her. Apparently every time a group passed near where she was she had already moved from the place and they could not find her because of that. Then she would come back and no one was around.

How life is lost by doing things that we seem to like but for which we are not prepared. Being in the forest and not being able to find water or plants to eat is unfortunate.

And much worse to lose hope for seeing that she no longer had supplies made her die faster. She was still a very skilled woman, with a lot of strength but she couldn't cope with so much.

It is easy for someone who is not mentally prepared to succumb to nature, to spend dark nights alone, to hear strange noises during bedtime, to think that we are alone at the mercy of the weather, the wildlife, the insects.

I don't know what I would do, nor can I imagine myself going through such a situation.

Would you dare to say you would do better?

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I'm @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.