He was "a total idiot" to venture unprepared into the Blue Mountains

This has an nteresting twist to the billed/fined stories we are becoming accustomed to.

http://news.aol.com/article/british-teen-hiker-says-he-was-a-total/577875

From the article:

'"I had overconfidence and I didn't respect the seriousness of the situation, and I made mistakes," Neale acknowledged to the program, which paid him $160,600 for his story. ....

.....Neale and his father, Richard Cass, threw a party for rescue workers when he was released from the hospital on Friday. Cass has said that any money earned would be donated to the searchers.'