Woman Gets Stuck Between Boulders for 7 Hours While Trying to Retrieve Her Phone

An Australian woman's trip was close to taking a tragic turn, if not for some timely intervention from several rescue services. Matilda Campbell was hiking in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales when her phone fell into a nearly 10-foot-deep crevice, PEOPLE reported. The woman tried to fetch her device and got stuck upside down in the pursuit. Her friends tried to get her out but were unable to do so and hence called the emergency services to the site.

Campbell claimed that she was in Laguna for a friend's birthday, ABC News Australia reported. She was admiring the view in front of her when the phone fell. The woman has no idea, how she got stuck in such a weird state. "My positioning was very weird as I had my left arm in front of my head and my right arm was near my legs," she explained.

Several agencies got involved in the rescue operation, and after seven hours managed to get Campbell out of the crevice, ABC News Australia reported. "It has definitely changed my perspective on life," Campbell said about the accident that happened in early October. 

Campbell came out with some minor bruises and scratches, BBC reported. Her phone did not survive the ordeal. "Thank you to the team who saved me you guys are literally life savers," she wrote online, expressing her gratitude to the rescue teams. "Too bad about the phone tho."

Most of the rescuers in the area had never seen such a case before in their career, PEOPLE reported. "In my 10 years as a rescue paramedic I had never encountered a job quite like this," Peter Watts, with New South Wales Ambulance, said in the agency’s statement. "It was challenging but incredibly rewarding." Watts also added that Campbell's rescue effort could be facilitated because of the collaborative effort that was put in by multiple agencies.