{"id":28143,"date":"2013-02-14T15:21:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T14:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/british-teen-backpacker-missing-outback-021213312.html"},"modified":"2013-02-14T15:21:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T14:21:54","slug":"british-teen-backpacker-missing-in-outback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/british-teen-backpacker-missing-in-outback\/","title":{"rendered":"British teen backpacker missing in Outback"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">An 18-year-old British backpacker, who was hoping to join the armed forces, is missing in the Australian Outback after setting out on a hike to &#8220;improve his fitness&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Police launched a land and air search for 18-year-old Sam Woodhead after he failed to return from his expedition on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>He had set off from the Upshot Station homestead, about 130km (80 miles) from the far-flung Queensland town of Longreach, some 700km inland from the coast.<\/p>\n<p>Officers fear for the young man&#8217;s safety due to his lack of familiarity with the property, which sprawls across 3,200 acres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lack of water, the heat, venomous snakes and injury are probably our greatest concern,&#8221; Sergeant Dave Perry told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>He said the missing teenager had some survival training.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He may have been using some of the rougher country and the jump-ups to improve his fitness,&#8221; said Sgt Perry.<\/p>\n<p>Planes, motorbikes and four-wheel drives are being used in the search.<\/p>\n<p>Local people have also been combing the area on foot and horseback, and an emergency services helicopter carrying medical staff has been sent out.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Woodhead&#8217;s mother is understood to be flying out to Australia to help with the search.<\/p>\n<p>His sister, Rebecca Woodhead, wrote on her Facebook page: &#8220;If anyone hears from my brother please contact me ASAP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Would be a great birthday present if my brother would just turn up and ask what all the fuss is about!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old British backpacker, who was hoping to join the armed forces, is missing in the Australian Outback after setting out on a hike to &#8220;improve his fitness&#8221;.<br \/>\nPolice launched a land and air search for 18-year-old Sam Woodhead after he failed t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}