The 72-year-old slipped 10 metres down an embankment during a hike, with paramedics believing she may not have been found if passers-by did not hear her calls for help.
Paramedics Nathan Cutler and Morgan Kingston helped rescue the woman from dense bushland.abc.net.au/news/woman-rescued-near-cairns-walking-track-after-two-days/101806144Paramedics say a 72-year-old woman is lucky to have been found after she spent two days stranded at the bottom of a 10-metre embankment in a Cairns conservation park.
The alarm was only raised when other walkers heard her calls for help on Thursday afternoon and called triple zero. "Because this isn't an established walking track, I'd hazard a guess she would not have [otherwise] been found."Mr Cutler said the woman was "very relieved" after she was found her in the "dense scrub"."The ground was giving way as we were walking on it and the embankment she was walking on was difficult to navigate, even for emergency services.Mount Whitfield includes several marked walking trails, with some offering views of Cairns.
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