Dramatic rescue operation in Australia’s Hunter Valley: While trying to retrieve her dropped smartphone, a 23-year-old hiker fell headfirst into a three-metre crevasse and was trapped with her feet up for seven hours. Only then were emergency services finally able to free her.
The accident happened a few days ago while hiking with friends near the town of Laguna. Since there is no cell phone reception in the remote area, their companions first had to find a place from which to make the emergency call. It was only an hour later that the first rescuers arrived at the crack.
The helpers were surprised to find the young woman in relatively good condition. “She was so brave,” said Peter Watts, Special Operations Officer at NSW Ambulance.
The rescue was extremely difficult: the teams had to remove seven boulders weighing between 80 and 500 kilograms to reach the woman – or initially her feet. A wooden frame was also built to prevent it from being hit by falling rocks.
“Never experienced an operation like this before”
It then took another hour for the victim to navigate an S-turn back to the surface. “In my 10 years as a paramedic, I’ve never seen anything like this,” Watts said.
Mobile phone could not be saved
The rescued woman thanked the helpers in a post on social media: “Thank you to the team who saved me,” she wrote. “You are literally life-savers… it’s a shame about the phone.”
Source: Krone
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