Woman wedged upside down between boulders for seven hours after trying to retrieve phone in regional NSW

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A woman was wedged between two boulders for seven hours after she slipped head-first into a three-metre crevice while trying to retrieve her phone in regional New South Wales.

The woman’s friends initially spent an hour attempting to free her while she was hanging upside down before they called triple zero for help, NSW Ambulance said this week.