The 23-year-old woman was walking with friends in New South Wales, Australia, earlier this month when the incident occurred
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Hiker caught upside down after trying to retrieve phone she dropped
A 23-year-old woman trying to retrieve her phone after it fell while hiking in Australia found herself between a rock and a hard place — not to mention upside down.
Matilda Campbell was walking with friends in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales earlier this month when she dropped her phone and then slid her head into a nearly 10-foot-deep crevice, according to the New South Wales Ambulance Service and ABC News. Australia.
Campbell’s friends called emergency services after they were unable to free her due to the ‘challenging’ nature of how she was trapped between the boulders.
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Multiple agencies responded to the incident, with emergency workers working for seven hours to free the woman.
“In my 10 years as a rescue paramedic, I had never come across a job like this,” New South Wales Ambulance’s Peter Watts said in the agency’s statement on Facebook. “It was challenging but incredibly rewarding.”
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Team works to rescue hiker
Watts continued: “Every agency had a role, and we all worked incredibly well together to achieve a good patient outcome.”
Rescuers moved several boulders, including a 1,000-lb. rock out of the way, and they placed a wooden frame around the woman to ensure that the rocks did not move during her rescue.
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Ultimately, Campbell emerged with bruises and minor scratches, the BBC reported.
Unfortunately, her phone wasn’t so lucky.
“Thank you to the team that saved me,” Campbell wrote in the comments on the ambulance service’s message, according to ABC News Australia. “You guys are literally life savers… shame about the phone.”
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