On Oct. 12th, a woman taking pictures in Australia’s Hunter Valley region dropped her phone and then got stuck upside-down in a rock crevice trying to retrieve it. By the time emergency responders arrived, she’d been hanging by her feet for over an hour. It took seven hours to rescue her. A photo taken during the rescue shows the soles of her feet wedged in a narrow space between two boulders. Workers had to remove several heavy boulders to create a safe access point to reach her. The woman, 23-year-old Matilda Campbell, described herself as highly accident-prone and vowed “no more rock exploration for me for a while.”
* Then she tripped on the trail and broke her arm.
* It’s Australia. Aren’t people there used to being upside-down?
* Literally, between a rock and a hard place.
* If only there was some kind of cord you could use to hang your phone around your neck.
* If you’re not going to bring a buddy when you go exploring around rocks, bring a jackhammer.