Lady Gets Stuck Between Rocks For 7 hrs. Trying to Retrieve Phone

According to ABC News Australia, the woman became trapped after inserting her head into a narrow gap between the rocks while trying to retrieve her phone that had fallen.

Her phone had dropped between two rocks while she was on a walking tour.

The woman—identified 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-meter gap.

This marked the beginning of a seven-hour ordeal, during which emergency services had to carry out a "challenging" rescue, including moving several rocks.

Even after managing to move a 500-kilogram boulder out of the way, they still had to figure out how to extract the woman from the "S" bend in which she had become trapped.

"In my 10 years as a rescue assistant, I’ve never encountered a job like this. It was tough but incredibly rewarding," said Peter Watts, a New South Wales Ambulance worker, according to a statement shared on the service’s social media pages.

She had already been upside down for over an hour before rescuers arrived. Her friends’ earlier attempts to free her were unsuccessful.

Photos shared by the ambulance service show her hanging upside down between the rocks, with rescuers working hard to stabilize the area as emergency teams tried to create enough space to free her.

Later, Mr. Watts described the young woman as a "trooper" in an interview with Australia’s ABC.

"We were all like, how did you get there—and how are we going to get you out?" Amazingly, the rescued woman only sustained minor scrapes and bruises, according to NSW Ambulance. However, she did not manage to recover her phone.

"Thanks to the team that saved me—you are lifesavers," she wrote in an online message. "Sorry about the phone."