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'All we could see was the soles of her feet': Woman stuck for 7 hours after dropping phone in crevice

AnAustralian womanwas rescued earlier this month after getting stuck upside down, wedged between two boulders, while trying to retrieve her phone.

The Australian woman was wedged upside down between two boulders

A pair of feet in a crevice
In this photo shared on Facebook by New South Wales Ambulance on Oct. 21, a woman is seen dangling upside down after getting stuck in a rocky crevice in the Hunter Valley while attempting to retrieve her phone. (NSW Ambulance/Facebook)

Drop your phone? Of course, pick it up.

Drop your phone down anarrowcrevice between two boulders on ajaggedhillside?Maybe think twice before going after it.

AnAustralian womanwas rescued earlier this month after getting stuck upside down, wedged between two boulders while trying to retrieveher phone. According to a Facebook post by NSW Ambulance, the woman "got herself in a spot of bother" after she fell into a three-metre crevice in the Hunter Valley, a region north ofSydney known for its wineries and walking trails.

"With no phone reception and unable to call for help herself, her friends called Triple Zero [Australia'semergency line]after unsuccessful attempts to free her the patient was hanging by her feet upside down for over an hour by this point," reads the statement posted on Monday.

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Rescuers work to free the woman who was stuck in a rocky crevice after dropping her phone. (NSW Ambulance/Facebook)

A multidisciplinary team worked to remove "several heavy boulders" to create an access point, built a hardwood frame for stability, and then had to navigate the woman out through a "tight S-bend," the statement explains.

She was stuck for seven hours before she waseventually freed "with only minor scratches and bruises," the statement said.

She was, however,unable to retrieve her phone.

"In my 10 years as a rescue paramedic I had never encountered a job quite like this, it was challenging but incredibly rewarding," NSW ambulance specialist rescue paramedicPeter Watts said in the statement.

Rescuers work in  a  rocky crevice
Rescuers had to remove 'several heavy boulders' to create an access point, built a hardwood frame for stability, and then had to navigate the woman out through a 'tight S-bend,' a statement by NSW Ambulance explains. (NSW Ambulance/Facebook)

'You think I meant to getstuck or something?'

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) identified the woman as 23-year-old Matilda Campbell, who told the news service she dropped her phone while taking pictures and slipped while going after it. She reportedly told 7 News Australia that she's accident-prone and plansto take a break from bush-walking.

"All we could see was the soles of her feet," Watts told 7 Newsabout the rescue.

In an Instagram post last week, Campbell sharedphotos of her injuries, writing, "how the night started vs the next day when i was stuck for 5 hours between rocks + a fractured vertebrae."

The photo carousel starts out showing Campbelland two friends smiling in a selfie, and ends with images of gashes and bruises on her shoulder, back, arms and hip.

In an Instagramstory, Campbell shareda screenshot of a threatening, profanity-laced DM that says she "put emergencyservices on the line for your stupidity."

"Damn, you think I meant to getstuck or something??" she wrote in the story.

Campbell thanked her rescuers in a comment on NSW Ambulance's Instagram post.

"Thank you to the team who saved me. You guys are literally lifesavers too bad about the phone though."

A woman with anabrasion on her shoulder
In a photo posted to her Instagram, Matilda Campbell of New South Wales shows the injuries she sustained after getting stuck between two boulders while trying to retrieve her phone. (@matilda_campbell/Instagram)