Laos, a small country in Southeast Asia, has a population of only 8 million and quiet roads with few people moving around. Its most attractive place is a dense and secluded primeval jungle.
The jungle here is different from other places and is like a wonderland that is stunning. It is one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world that has not been damaged by humans.
As a result, a large number of adventure tourists from all over the world love to come here, and it has become an excellent place for explorers to pursue another survival experience.
First, the jungle waterfall went to experience adventure tourism, mistakenly saw an animal crawling trail as a road, and went in the wrong direction
In 2012, Australian backpacker Hayden . Adcock came to Laos.
Fit, 38, a fit and energetic 38-year-old who has traveled to more than 30 countries during his 15-year journey around the world, decided to venture to the jungle waterfalls in southern Laos for adventure tourism.
When everything was ready, Hayden came to Laos from Melbourne in July of that year, and after spending two days in the city, he stayed in a hotel owned by an ethnic Chinese 3 km from the jungle.
After Hayden finished his lunch and worked in front of the computer for two hours, he packed up and prepared to go out for a stroll.
The departure was at 15 o'clock in the afternoon, and the innkeeper told him: "It's thick here, you have to come back before dark, or you're going to get lost." ”
Hayden had a wealth of experience in the wilderness, he smiled and nodded, came out of the hotel, and walked the 3-kilometer journey to the jungle, it only took a short time, he calculated, and he could return at half past 16.
It was around 19 o'clock when it got dark in Laos, and Hayden saw that there was enough time and walked into the jungle.
Although Hayden is a veteran of walking through the jungle, he does not know that to travel through this country of steep limestone jungle, he needs to bring a local guide.
Hayden was on the road and from time to time met some local Lao residents, he asked in English about the road ahead, however, because the Laotian natives did not know much English, it was difficult to communicate with them.
Hayden gestured with his hand to make them understand what he meant, but they didn't understand.
The local Laos people did not understand the real meaning of Hayden's going to the jungle, thinking that he was just going around and going back, and the two sides could only shake their heads and look at each other.
So, with experience, Hayden walked along a path in the jungle. The woods were dense, and he had to carefully discern the road ahead, and that was how carefully: he still mistook a path crawling by animals for a road, and went in the wrong direction, into a dark dense forest that no human had ever set foot on.
This dense forest is a jungle rarely accessed by locals, and the terrain is steep, and after he walked for a while, there was no road ahead.
Hayden had to crawl forward along the cliff, and after a while, he vaguely heard a huge sound of water in front of him, as if it was thunder rumbling.
Through the gaps in the leaves, Hayden saw the splash of water from under the rock, and he was a little disappointed because it was not what he wanted to see. He had to move on.
At this time, suddenly the sky was covered with dark clouds, and after a while it began to rain heavily, and the road became slippery, and he looked around, trying to return the same way, but the paths were gone.
The situation became grim, the night was quietly approaching, and if the time came to 18 o'clock, the situation was not very good.
Because they know that in the dense forests of Laos, there are many wild beasts lurking, including wild elephants, tigers, lizards and other animals, and they all come out at night and are very active. So, night is an unsafe time.
Hayden intends to stay still under a tree, and is prepared if he finds the situation.
But at this time, the roar of the tiger was constantly heard in the distance, and the smell of the beast began to rush over, and Hayden felt bad, and he panicked and hurriedly climbed to the rock. Suddenly, something stabbed him in the back, and he shook his whole body, and the whole person fell from the side of the mountain.
I don't know how long it took, but when he woke up, the sun had already risen, and Hayden knew it was day 2. He slowly got up and looked around, wondering how to get out of the place.
The only way now is to call for help and let the distant mountain people find him.
So, Hayden shouted as he walked: "Is there anyone? However, his echo came from the mountains, and the surroundings were still quiet.
Second, the environment has become extremely harsh, and the fungal hyphae are causing malignant infections and poisoning the blood in his body.
At this time, in the hotel where Hayden was staying, the owner saw that he had not returned all night. Analysis Hayden did not come back to sleep last night and may have lost in the jungle.
So, the boss hurriedly came to the travel agency to find the local guide Roy and told him the situation.
Roy immediately gathered 15 local able-bodied villagers and organized them to search separately: the first group searched along the surface path; The second group searched along the river; A third group searched around the mountain.
At this time Hayden was hungry, and he was in an isolated gorge away from the road.
Now comes a very critical moment. Because it was dusk the next afternoon, if night came and he encountered a beast, he realized that he had no hope.
Hayden did not dare to continue walking, so he hid under the rock and fell asleep.
When he woke up on the morning of the third day, he realized that he had had another frightening night.
At this time, Hayden needs to face an even greater challenge, because of the severe lack of sleep and food, which leads to his lack of physical strength.
He searched for wild fruits, or anything else to eat, but he couldn't find anything to eat.
In the absence of food, people can eat leaves for a month at most, and Hayden chews bitter leaves. He knew that in this extremely debilitating situation, the slightest cut or abrasion would have unpredictable consequences for the body.
Because the jungle is an environment full of fungal spores and insects, their life thrives by absorbing nutrients from the carrion of these animals.
At this time, Hayden had multiple wounds and wounds on his body, and he was already surrounded by these silent enemy groups. These peristalgic microbes were attacking his immune system. His wounds have become a battleground for bacterial charges, and fungal hyphae are causing vicious infections that poison the blood in his body.
At this time, Hayden had no way to continue walking, his body was very weak, and he was exhausted to the extreme.
He hadn't eaten for four days, and his hopes of rescue were dashing.
Hayden began to plan for the worst, and now he wondered whether to end his life or stay here and persevere.
If he jumps from the waterfall in front of him, he will smash under the rock and die, dying quickly and without pain, which is probably the best option.
Hayden limped to the waterfall, and at this moment his heart began to churn uncontrollably. The first thing he thought of was his parents, the only child in the family, and if he left like this, it would completely ruin the family.
His mother's face appeared in front of him, and he felt a huge force surging from the bottom of his heart, and he thought that he could not just give up his life casually, he had to live strongly.
That night, the weather suddenly changed, the temperature plummeted, and the environment became extremely harsh. At this time, he did not know that at this moment, tropical storm northern corona was sweeping across Southeast Asia.
The pouring rain kept falling, Hayden began to have a high fever, sepsis began to take advantage of the weakness, and his feet hurt so much that the pain was crazy.
He took off his shoes and saw that his feet had been deformed, black and red, very scary. Dampness and infection, his feet were already festering inside his shoes.
Day 5 has passed, and Hayden is under the onslaught of infection, and his body will soon develop septic shock.
After 4 days of searching in the jungle, the rescue team led by guide Roy had no choice but to end due to the tropical storm.
Day 5 has passed, and Hayden is under the onslaught of infection, and his body will soon develop septic shock.
At this time, the wounds on Hayden's legs and feet began to infect, and the condition developed to this stage, and his whole person could not stand steadily.
The loss of physical strength made him unable to do some of the most basic things, and the situation became quite difficult.
At this time, as the temperature dropped below 20 degrees Celsius, although Hayden was feverish, his body temperature began to drop. He felt very cold and had to find a place to shelter from the rain or he would die.
At this time, the heavy rain stopped. He rolled his body vigorously, chose to risk death to unfold his body, and lay on a rock in the open air.
Although, this look was not very much to be found. But it's also the only place where people can see themselves. For example, helicopters or people collecting medicine.
He was lying like this, septic shock and hypothermia, which had interfered with the normal functioning of Hayden's brain. He hallucinated and saw several locals approaching, all holding a shot glass in their hands, but it looked like a poisonous liquid inside, and he refused, not a glass. They poured liquid on his back.
At this time, the heavy rain began to fall again, like a whip, but he could only let the heavy rain wash over himself.
Little did Hayden know that his bold decision to risk death and expose his body had earned him his last chance of life.
On the night of the 9th day that Hayden was trapped in the jungle, something happened.
On this day, Australian tourist Rob. Krasek and his friend got lost in the storm and were forced to stay at the hotel where Hayden had stayed.
When they learned of Hayden's disappearance, they drove for an hour along a potholed dirt road early the next morning.
At that time, the visibility was only two or three meters. Some locals asked if they had come looking for the missing Australian.
Rob didn't know anything about Hayden before, but knew that the villagers had been looking for him.
The villagers said: "Under the existing conditions, they have done everything they can to search and rescue work.
Rob listened and immediately called his friend Rachel, who worked at the Australian Embassy, and Rachel immediately reported the situation to Ambassador Foster.
Ambassador Forster decided to take immediate action, and she wanted to be informed first-hand.
So, Foster sent someone to the hotel to check the check-in time of Hayden's check-in and learned that he had been missing for 9 days.
The clock was ticking and Ambassador Foster immediately used a helicopter from the Laotian capital, Vaught, piloted by Volt, an experienced search and rescue expert.
Walt saw the village near the jungle in water from the helicopter, and he thought there was zero chance that Hayden was alive, and he informed the search and rescue team on the ground to prepare for the body.
Seven months after being rescued, Hayden returned to Bangkok and Laos. He asked for his own wish to thank everyone who saved his life!
By day 10, under terrible weather conditions, Hayden suffered from the double whammy of septic shock and severe hypothermia. At this time, he was already dying.
Hayden felt very cold on his body, as if it was starting to snow. Hallucinations control his brain. At this time, his body temperature continued to drop and he faced the arrival of death.
Walt drove the helicopter to maintain contact with the ground search and rescue team, and he searched along the jungle to the waterfall. He searched carefully from high above along a road into the mountain.
The whole road below can be seen, and you can also see the situation on both sides of the road going deep into the dense forest.
Incredibly, as Walt began to patrol, the clouds above his head began to disperse and the jungle was bathed in sunlight.
Walt began calling ground personnel to report the situation to the ground.
The helicopter continued to circle up and down the deep valley, checking all the rocks that had fallen and found nothing.
Walt told ground command that if Hayden was in the jungle, helicopters would not find him, and it would be difficult for ground search and rescue crews to find him.
At this time, the helicopter arrived at another waterfall and searched there. Walt circled the helicopter around the waterfall grove. Suddenly, he spotted Hayden lying on a stone in the open air.
Walt immediately called ground search and rescue personnel and told them the specific coordinates of the target.
Since the helicopter could not land in the dense jungle, Walt had to wait for the ground personnel to come to the rescue.
At this time, according to the report of the ground command, the villagers and search and rescue personnel carved out a path in the jungle, and after an hour and a half of painstaking progress through dense and low bushes, they finally reached their goal.
At this time, Hayden lay motionless on the rocks, and the continuous rain soaking and bug bites made his body very red and swollen, and much of the skin on his feet was gone, as well as the back of his thighs and back and forearms. These places are full of abscesses, as well as terrible yellow blisters.
The search and rescue personnel leaned forward, and the guide, Roy, thought that Hayden was dead, lay down and called out in his ear, and a miracle occurred. Hayden actually opened his eyes, and everyone was very happy.
Since the commercial helicopter did not have special equipment to fly a stretcher, search and rescue personnel faced a difficult test.
Now they can only carry Hayden out of the jungle on a stretcher, and they can't guarantee that Hayden will survive during the transportation. The rescuers secured Hayden on a stretcher and completed this challenging and difficult task.
Search and rescue crews carefully carried Hayden, and after four hours of arduous struggle against the jungle, the rescue team finally returned to the village.
At this point, the helicopter stopped there, and when Roy put him on the helicopter, Hayden was still conscious, not only was he still alive, but when he was carried into the helicopter, he could tilt his head and say a few words, which was incredible.
When Hayden was taken to the hospital, he began to fall unconscious and talk nonsense, and hallucinations ran from this incident to that thing.
The situation was critical, and the embassy decided to take him to Bangkok Hospital in Thailand for rescue. During his three weeks in the intensive care unit of Bangkok Hospital, Hayden endured septic shock, sepsis and severe kidney failure, and nearly died twice, but he survived with tenacity.
At this time, Hayden's mother, Linny, arrived in Bangkok from Australia and stayed with her son for 3 weeks.
Hayden's mother, Linny, said: "His inner world has become very, very peaceful now, and he can't move it at all, and this is the real side of life!" He has gone through the test of life and death, no longer bothered by anything, he cherishes his hard-won life! ”
As Hayden gradually recovered, many people came to greet him and ask how he survived? Hayden didn't know how to answer this question, he was silent for a long time before saying: "I thought a lot when I was in deep trouble, thinking that my life was coming to an end, and I thought of my mother, who gave me the courage to live; However, I knew in my heart that I would not survive the next day! There is a big element of luck in this, if it were not for luck, I would not have survived today, I think I would still be alive today, thanks to the great help of so many well-wishers. ”
A month later, Hayden returned from Bangkok Hospital to continue treatment at the Royal Hospital in Brisbane, Australia, when his infected wounds began to heal and he tried to walk on the ground.
Seven months after being rescued, Hayden returned to Bangkok and Laos. He asked for his own wish to thank everyone who saved his life!
Now after recovery, Hayden still has to travel: he wants to see the rich and strange world, as long as life exists, he must cherish every minute! Go and fulfill your wishes and dreams!