Do It Yourself Saviors

We met one of the guides who takes teams across the desert while we were waiting to cross the Mauritania to Senegal border a few days ago. He was on his way back from taking a five person team across the desert and mentioned that another team had lost a car during the crossing. They were eventually found and are doing fine, but put quite a fright into people. Nice guys, and we're all very happy to hear that they will be okay.
Here's the article:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007080154,00.html

I guess there are worse things than breaking down in a tourist town.