The obsession with mobile phones in today's society can sometimes be dangerous or even deadly. Just ask an Australian woman who spent seven hours upside down trapped between rocks while trying to retrieve her phone during a hike, until she was rescued by emergency teams, as reported by Efe.
The woman was out for a walk with some friends earlier this month in the Hunter Valley region, north of Sydney, when she entered a crevice about 3 meters deep and got trapped head down while trying to retrieve her mobile phone, according to photographs published this week by the New South Wales Ambulance Service.
Campbell's companions tried to rescue her, but after several unsuccessful attempts, they finally called emergency services.
After assessing the terrain, the rescue teams managed to remove with the help of ropes and a winch one of the rocks, weighing around 500 kilograms, and free the woman.
"In my 10 years as a rescue paramedic, I had never encountered a job like this, it was challenging but incredibly rewarding," noted rescuer Peter Watts, in a statement posted on Facebook by the ambulance service.
The woman ended up with only "minor scratches and bruises," but she was unable to recover her mobile phone.