Ambulance Tasmania's Adam Marmion and Dr Jo Kippax with patient. Critically injured Lithuanian kayaker who was winched from Franklin River and had his leg amputated to be rescued, reunites with ...

The Franklin River runs through 130km of mountainous terrain in the Central Highlands of Tasmania. It was named after John Franklin, a governor of Tasmania best known for his disastrous 1845 ...

A tourist who had his leg amputated following a 20-hour rescue mission in Tasmania is returning home to Lithuania after spending months in hospital recovering.

A Lithuanian national whose leg was amputated during an emergency medical extraction from Tasmania's remote wilderness will soon return home after a two-month recovery.

The 50-year rafting veteran was traveling down the Franklin River in Tasmania two months ago when he stepped out of his boat and slipped on rocks, according to a Nov. 28 news release from Surf ...

Australia's Lithuanian ambassador has met with the man at the centre of last month's rescue operation on the Franklin River, which ended in the man's leg being amputated at the knee. The ...

I TOOK a Gordon River cruise. Included was the history of the Franklin River blockade and an interview with Bob Brown ...

but his profile began with the fight to stop the Franklin being dammed by Tasmania’s Hydro-Electric Commission.) Brown recalls the river as a “restorative experience” in a primordial place.

Ambulance Tasmania's Adam Marmion and Dr Jo Kippax with patient. Critically injured Lithuanian kayaker who was winched from Franklin River and had his leg amputated to be rescued, reunites with ...