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Alienor le Gouvello has documented her journey on Australiaâs 5330km Bicentennial National Trail in her new book, Wild at Heart Australia. Picture: Cat Vinton
Exhausted, her joints screaming in agony from Ross River Fever and with serious infections in her foot and leg, Frenchwoman Alienor Le Gouvello arrived in Cooktown, one of only two women to have completed Australia's longest trek, the 5330km Bicentennial National Trail, on their own.
"No one will ever quite know what I've been through, nor what I have endured," she writes in her new book, Wild at Heart, outlining her gruelling 13-month expedition that she completed in 2017.