Tourist rescued 12hrs after cliff fall
Published: May 21, 2005
A German tourist lay injured for almost 12 hours on a cliff face of a remote West Australian gorge as emergency crews tried to reach her following a fall.
The 22-year-old broke her wrist and possibly injured her back when she fell while climbing down into the spectacular Hancock Gorge in the Karijini National Park in WA’s Pilbara.
The woman had been bushwalking about 4pm (WST) yesterday when she lost her footing while trying to climb down a ladder on the cliff face surrounding the rugged gorge.
Metal ladders are placed into the steep cliff face because they provide the only access into the gorge, which is popular with bushwalkers.
A police spokeswoman from the nearby town of Tom Price said the woman fell about five metres after losing her footing, breaking her wrist and possibly injuring her back.
Her companions alerted the park ranger who contacted emergency services.
But police and State Emergency Service crews took almost 12 hours to reach her inside the rugged gorge and airlift her to Tom Price Hospital.
The woman was taken by the Royal Flying Doctor Service this morning to Royal Perth Hospital, where she is in a stable condition.
Police were unsure from where in Germany the woman originated.
Hancock Gorge, one of a series of gorges in the Pilbara, is named after the late iron ore magnate Lang Hancock, who discovered more than 500 separate iron ore deposits in the Pilbara.
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