A COMMUNITY is in shock and a family in grief after a 25-year-old man was found dead from dehydration and exposure north of the Simpson Desert in Queensland.
Mauritz "Mo" Pieterse was on what was supposed to be a morning routine check of a spring near Ethabuka Station with friend and contractor Josh, 30, when their car was bogged in a sand dune.
By late afternoon locals realised the pair had not returned and turned out in force to find them. Around midnight, neighbours found Mo's body.