He was reunited with his girlfriend at the hospital, where he was treated for hypothermia and minor injuries. Osmun said McNeill and the rangers were the reason why he was alive. “Only after a small break in the weather occurred in the afternoon, the DPS helicopter was able safely extricated the patient with a hoist rescue operation,” officials said in a news release. “It was pouring snow worse than it had been the whole time,” Osmun said. A snowstorm forced them to stay put through the night and into the morning. Three other rangers arrived an hour later and were able to free Osmun - but the journey wasn’t over. My whole hips felt like they were ripping out,” Osmun said. “He started to pull on that, but it just felt like it was ripping my leg off. The ranger who first arrived at the scene initially tried using a rope and pully to free the hiker. He later awoke to a flash of light and thought he was dreaming, FOX13 reported. Osmun recalled collapsing into the water eight hours after his girlfriend left to look for help. I couldn’t, I couldn’t really control to hold myself up.” “My hips were just so tired from standing like that that they weren’t holding me up. “About 30 minutes after she left it started snowing really hard, so I was stuck in the water while it was pouring snow,” Osmun said. It took another two hours for them to reach Osmun, who told FOX13 he waited in the water as it snowed “really hard.” Park officials said they found McNeill suffering from hypothermia. She hiked for four hours before she had enough cellphone service to call 911, park officials said. Osmun’s girlfriend, who was soaked following her fall, covered the 34-year-old with “warm gear and clothing” and went to look for help. “Every second she would scrape it would just fill back up instantly,” Osmun said, adding that he began to panic. Osmun said his girlfriend tried to free his leg, but to no avail. The couple had already hiked more than four miles and were almost at the Subway, a canyon that hikers reach through the Left Fork Trail. In fact, slow back-and-forth movements can actually let water into the cavity around a trapped limb, loosening the quicksand’s hold. It felt like it had dried instantly I couldn’t move my leg at all.” If you do find yourself stuck in quicksand, the best idea is to lean back so that the weight of your body is distributed over a wider area. “It felt like you were just sinking into, like, wet concrete. “As I was helping her I didn’t realize my right leg was sinking all the way into the sand, so it got about to my waist on my right leg and my left leg started sinking also,” Osmun said. He recalled helping her up when he realized he was sinking into the sand himself. Osmun said he was hiking with his girlfriend Jessika McNeill when she got stuck in mud and fell into the creek. “ Feel very lucky to be alive and to have my leg,” Ryan Osmun told FOX13 on Monday, two days after the harrowing ordeal at the national park in Utah began. Grand Canyon tourists exposed to radiation inside building for nearly two decadesĪn Arizona hiker said he thought he was going to lose his leg after he got stuck in quicksand for nearly 10 hours at Zion National Park during a winter storm. PETA defends response to Karl Lagerfeld's death Mexican restaurant's bartender gets 'tip' on receipt: 'Build the f-ing wall'
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