Woman wedged upside down between rocks for 7 hours while retrieving phone

While taking photos in Australia's Hunter Valley, Matilda Campbell dropped her cellphone into a tight crevice between two massive boulders, then tried to reach for it.

An Australian woman learned a valuable lesson the hard way this month — when you lose your phone in a tricky spot, don’t risk your life trying to save it.

While taking photos on Oct. 12 in Hunter Valley, Australia, north of Sydney, Matilda Campbell dropped her cellphone into a tight crevice between two massive boulders. As she was trying to retrieve her phone, rescuers said Campbell slipped into the three-metre-deep gap and became stuck upside down.

On social media, the New South Wales Ambulance service joked Campbell found herself “between a rock and a hard place.”

Campbell’s friends, with whom she’d been hiking, tried to free her. After one hour of effort, Campbell was still stuck, so the group called for help.

There was limited cellphone service in the region, so Campbell’s friends had to search for an area to phone for emergency assistance.

Officials shared several dramatic photos from the rescue mission, including one of Campbell stuck deep in the crevice, with only her bare feet visible from above.

A multidisciplinary team of medical and emergency personnel worked to remove “several heavy boulders to create a safe access point,” NSW Ambulance wrote.

When her feet were accessible, the team said they had to pull Campbell up through a tight ‘S’ bend between the rocks. The manoeuvre took over an hour.