Woman wedged upside down between rocks for 7 hours after trying to retrieve her phone
abc7ny.com
An Australian woman tried to grab her lost phone between boulders and became stuck upside down for seven hours before being rescued.
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2026-05-31 18:00:33+00:00.

Original Title: TIL after a woman dropped her phone, she slipped face-first into a 10-cm wide gap between two large boulders & landed upside down in the 3-meter deep crevice. She survived in that inverted position for 7 hours before being rescued (and which would’ve been fatal for most people at just couple hours).

  • adhocfungus@midwest.social
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    25 days ago

    “The chute that she slid down didn’t go straight down, so we couldn’t pull her straight up,” Watts said. She had to form an ‘S’ shape, with her legs to one side, then the other. “Once we got her hips out, then we had to move her legs back around to the left-hand side to get her shoulder out. So, it was a bit of a maneuver to get all of her out of that little crevice.”

    Terrifying. I know it’s insensitive, but I can’t help but think of Junji Ito’s Amigara Fault. The article says she stayed strangely calm the whole time, but I can’t imagine how.