A grandfather who ate ants to survive while lost for six days without water in the Australian outback says he thought he thought he was going to die out in the wilderness.
Reg Foggerdy, 62, was on a hunting trip with his brother last month in the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia when he set off in pursuit of a camel he'd shot.
I followed this camel into the bush. I'd gone at least 30k, I didn't know where I was," he told CNN affiliate Seven Network, recounting his errant 19-mile wander and the extraordinary tale of survival that followed.
Foggerdy found himself alone with only the shorts, T-shirt, flip-flops and hat he was wearing. He had a valuable source of food right in front of him -- the dead camel he'd chased down -- but no means with which to eat it.
"I didn't have a knife, and I didn't have matches for a fire," he said. "So I couldn't go and cut a steak off the animal because I had no way to cook it and had no way to cut it."
