A young woman spent hours trapped upside down after slipping between two rocks while trying to retrieve her mobile phone during a hike in Australia.
Women – She was named in reports as Matilda Campbell – She was walking in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales earlier this month when she fell into the three-metre-high fissure.
It was the start of a seven-hour ordeal, which saw emergency services carry out a “difficult” rescue – including moving numerous rocks.
Even after they managed to lift a 500-kilogram (1,100-pound) boulder out of the road, they still had to figure out how to get the woman out of the “S” bend she found herself in.
“In my 10 years as a rescue paramedic, I have never encountered a job quite like this,” Peter Watts, a paramedic with the New South Wales Ambulance Service, said, according to a statement on the service’s social media. “It has been challenging but incredibly rewarding.” . Pages.
She had already been upside down for more than an hour before rescuers arrived, and her friends’ initial attempts to free her were unsuccessful.
Images shared by the ambulance service show her pinned between rocks by her feet, as well as complex efforts to stabilize the area as emergency services attempted to create a gap large enough to free her.
Watts later described the young woman as a “soldier.” An interview with the Australian ABC channel.
“We all wondered, ‘How did it get there, and how are we going to get it out?’
The NSW Ambulance Service said that incredibly, the rescued woman was left with only minor scratches and bruises.
But she was unable to get her phone back.
“Thank you to the team that saved me, you guys are literally life savers,” she wrote in an online message.
“Too bad about the phone.”
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