ALICE SPRINGS - A second traveller who was missing for two weeks in the remote central Australian outback has been found alive.
Phu Tran was found on Tuesday morning south of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, police said.
Temperatures in the area reached nearly 40C.
Mr Tran, 40, told the pastoralist who found him he had survived after finding some water.
He was among three people who went missing on November 19 after going out for “an afternoon trek”. One woman was found on Monday, and a search continues for the second woman.
After their car became bogged in a river, the three left a note on their windshield and set off to find help.
The trio stuck together for several days until supplies ran out, before sourcing water from a nearby waterhole and drinking it, and then separating.
Police located one of the women at a waterhole after a pastoralist reported tyre tracks in an area which had not been searched.
Police helicopters are now searching for the third of the trio.