Here’s a scenario not of us want to be in.
A woman, aged in her early 20s, was wedged between boulders for seven hours after she slipped head-first into a 3m crevice while trying to retrieve her mobile in regional NSW.
Matilda Campbell’s friends then spent the first hour attempting to free her while she was hanging upside down before they called triple zero.
According to the Guardian, the tricky operation to free her from the unlikely predicament in the Hunter Valley on Saturday involved a team of multidisciplinary emergency workers.
They removed several heavy boulders to create a safe access point. Then, with both feet now accessible, the workers navigated Campbell feet first up through a “tight S bend”, which took an hour.
A specialist winch was used to move one 500kg boulder. A hardwood frame was also constructed to ensure stability during the rescue.
“In my 10 years as a rescue paramedic I had never encountered a job quite like this,” Peter Watts, a specialist rescue paramedic, told the press. “It was challenging but incredibly rewarding.”
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