I've just found this article on http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/…7826982171.html 
Outback tourist rescued twice in a week
Jano Gibson
September 13, 2006 - 11:05AMA 50-year-old man, dubbed the "Bumbling Brit" by British press, is recovering in Alice Springs hospital after being rescued in Northern Territory bushland for the second time in a week.
An air and ground search was launched yesterday afternoon after Martin Lake, reportedly a former police trainee, contacted authorities on his mobile phone to say he had been lost for five days near the Old Telegraph Station, a reserve about four kilometres north of Alice Springs.
But he couldn't tell them where he was, so a major search was launched to find him.
A week earlier he had been rescued from the same area after getting lost while walking along tracks in the area. He spent about three days wandering around before contacting police, who located him during an air search four hours later.
After that experience, he looked like "a freshly-cooked lobster", a receptionist at an Alice Springs hotel frequented by Mr Lake told the Daily Mail.
He had apparently gone walking without a hat, sunblock and very little water and reportedly told those who rescued him the first time: "I don't think I could have lasted another day out there ... I was on my last legs."
The hotel receptionist, Jodie Farnham, said he was embarrassed by the initial affair.
"I think he was a bit embarrassed about it because he realised that people just don't get lost in that area. He was also aware that he could have easily perished out there because you can't really survive in the midday heat for more than a couple of days without water," she said.
A friend at the Memorial Club, where Mr Lake enjoyed the odd beer, said Mr Lake was soon due to leave Australia and had decided to have one last look at the outback.
"He got along really well with the locals, telling us about all his troubles back home because he had been divorced some time ago," Hayden Crook told the Daily Mail.
"As his time here was running out before he had to return to the UK he decided to go for one last look around. He hasn't been able to explain how he lost his way."
He is being treated at Alice Springs Hospital suffering from dehydration.
"I can say that he is in a stable condition and he's being assessed," a hospital spokeswoman told smh.com.au.
