(International) Australian woman trapped upside down in a rock as she picked up her phone… seven hours of fear

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An Australian woman who was trying to pick up her mobile phone after it fell through a rock crack has been rescued after being trapped upside down in a rock crack for eight hours.

Australian paramedics from New South Wales (NSW) reported on social media (SNS) on January 21 that a woman recently dropped her phone between a 10 cm wide and 3 m deep rock while walking with friends in Laguna, a country town in the Hunter Valley .

The woman stuck her head into the rock’s cracks to find her cell phone, which had fallen, but her body was stuck upside down.

The published photo shows a woman’s bare feet trapped upside down in a crevice between rocks.

After receiving reports from friends, an urgent rescue team began high-level work to create a safe rescue site, pulling out as much as 500 kilograms of rocks.

The work took about 7 hours and the woman was saved with only minor abrasions.

Rescuers at the scene said they had “never done anything like this in their 10 years of life” and added that the woman’s cell phone was still in the cracks of the rock.

Reporter Lee Yu Na from the Digital News team.

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