Never give up your hope: Missing for 12 days: backpacker Jamie Neale found

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Backpacker Jamie Neale has been found alive in the NSW Blue Mountains after being missing for 12 days."About 11.30am today, two bushwalkers alerted emergency services to advise they had come across a man who identified himself as Jamie Neale near the Narrow Neck fire trail, near Katoomba," NSW Police said in a statement."Police Rescue officers, using a Rural Fire Service vehicle, made their way to the location and confirmed the identity of the man."He's been taken to Katoomba Hospital for treatment of dehydration and exposure."One of the bushwalkers had some medical experience and treated Mr Neale before he was taken to hospital, 2GB Radio reported.Mr Neale told a police officer at the hospital that he had been worried the searchers had given up looking for him, 2GB said.A 2GB reporter said that, at the hospital, Mr Neale looked very haggard and had answered questions "mumbling". "[He's] walking, talking and now in hospital care," he said."He was a bit shocked that there were TV camera

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Blue Mountains' walking trail 'pretty wild country'Jamie Neale needed to cross a steep cliff line from where he was last spotted to get up to the fire trail where he was found this morning, an experienced bushwalker says.Andrew Cox, chief executive of the National Parks Association of NSW, expressed amazement Mr Neale had made it up on to the fire trail, saying there was only one known pass in what was "pretty wild country".Mr Neale, 19, missing in the Blue Mountains for 12 days, was discovered this morning near the fire trail, police said.GB Radio said they had spoken to one of the rescuers. He told 2GB Mr Neale was not found at Narrow Neck but "further down in the gully".He was last sighted on top of Ruined Castle, a rock formation in the Jamison Valley."There's a cliff line between Ruined Castle and the Narrow Neck trail ... there's very few passes," Mr Cox said."If you don't know the area or if you don't have a map, it's very hard."I've done [the walk between Ruined Castle and Narr

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Water crucial: survival expertA fit, healthy person could survive being lost in the bush for two weeks or more - as long as they had water and shelter, a survival expert said today.Commenting on the discovery of British backpacker Jamie Neale, Paul Luckin, a Brisbane anaesthetist, said that, "if a person had water, warm clothing and was able to keep himself dry and out of the wind, survival for a fortnight is quite likely".Dr Luckin, who gave evidence at the recent inquest into the death of 17-year-old David Iredale, who died after becoming lost in the Blue Mountains in December 2006, said water, not food was the crucial issue."Food is not a limiting factor until at least three weeks."If [Mr Neale] was able to find some water, his chances of survival would be fairly good," said Dr Luckin, adding: "He may have been fairly uncomfortable."How long you can survive without water depends on how hot it is, the humidity, the winds and how much exercise you are doing."He speculated that Mr Neal

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