Missing backpacker Sam Woodhead was ‘within hours of death’ By The Courier Reporter February 18 2013, 11:43am February 18 2013, 11:43am Share Missing backpacker Sam Woodhead was ‘within hours of death’ Share via Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Messenger Email Post link https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/202630/missing-backpacker-sam-woodhead-was-within-hours-of-death/ Copy Link A British teenager who went missing after setting out on a run in the Australian outback said he was on his “last legs” when he was found. On Tuesday afternoon Sam Woodhead (18) failed to return to a cattle station in central Queensland. Sam, from Richmond in South-west London, was “within hours of death” his mother Claire Derry said. He was found on Friday after a rescue helicopter spotted his shorts. Sam got disorientated after going on a run. “I turned to drinking my contact lens solution and drunk some of my own urine,” he said. “It was getting pretty desperate. I don’t think I would have lasted another half-day.”