Australian woman was rescued after being stuck upside down among rocks

A young woman was trapped for hours upside down after slipping between two rocks while trying to retrieve her mobile phone during a hiking trip in Australia.

Woman – named in the report as Matilda Campbell – was walking in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales earlier this month when she fell into a three-metre crevasse.

It was the start of a seven-hour ordeal in which emergency services had to carry out a “challenging” rescue – including moving some rocks.

And even after managing to pull the 500kg (1,100lb) rock, they still had to find a way to get the woman out of the “S” curve she had fallen into.

Peter Watts, a paramedic with the New South Wales Ambulance service, said: “In my 10 years as a paramedic I have never encountered a job like this, it is challenging but rewarding. equally useful”. page.

She was upside down for more than an hour before rescuers arrived. Her friends’ initial attempts to free her were unsuccessful.

Photos shared by the ambulance service showed her dangling between rocks by her feet, as well as complex efforts to keep the area stable as emergency services tried to create a The gap was big enough to free her.

Mr Watts later described the young woman as a “soldier”. an interview with Australia’s ABC.

“We all asked, how did you get down there – and how did we get her out?”

Incredibly, the rescued woman suffered only minor scratches and bruises, NSW Ambulance said.

However, she did not get her phone back.

“Thank you team for saving me, you are truly life savers,” she wrote in an online message.

“Too bad about the phone.”