German traveler survives without food in the taiga

A traveler from Germany lived in the taiga of Transbaikalia for three days after an accident while rafting on the river.

Baidarka Victoria, who asked not to disclose her surname, got into a reverse drain and capsized on the Chara River. A boat carrying a bag of documents and food sank. We managed to save only the damp lighter.

The situation was complicated by the rains, which had lasted for several days. The woman dug up a dugout under the roots of a fallen tree, where she hid from the rain, she drank river water, and, according to her, she did not want to eat. She also said that all the time she forced herself to move, so as not to freeze, for example, she laid out stones two-meter inscription SOS. When the rain stopped, she lit a fire and dried her clothes.

Victoria was discovered by locals who were sailing in a motorboat. Now the traveler is waiting for the restoration of documents to fly home.

According to the athlete, she has been doing kayak rafting for 30 years, but this incident happened to her for the first time. She was going to finish the route on August 7, by that time having covered 900 kilometers from the village of Chapo-Ologo in the Trans-Baikal Territory to Olekminsk in Yakutia.

Source: lenta