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Australian woman wedged upside down between boulders for seven hours after trying to retrieve phone – Times of India

A women found herself trapped upside down in a narrow crevice between two boulders after dropping her phone while taking pictures at Australia's Hunter Valley region. The New South Wales Ambulance service shared details of the challenging rescue operation on their Instagram account describing how the 23-year-old, identified as Matilda Campbell, was literally "between a rock and a hard place."The rescue operation took a total of seven hours to free her from the roughly three-metre (10-foot) crevice.Peter Watts, the specialist rescue paramedic involved, noted that in his decade-long career, he had never faced a case quite like this.Campbell's friends had to trek to a location with better phone reception to alert emergency responders after their attempts to free her had failed.The rescue oper...