This is HORRIFYING!!
An Arizona couple are thankfully safe and sound after a hiking trip took a turn for the worst.
Ryan Osmun Jessika McNeill were hiking at Zion National Park in Utah over the weekend when Jessika fell into quicksand!
Ryan was trying to help his girlfriend get out of it, even MacGyvering a pulley system to wrap around Jessika’s waist and hooked to a rock, but she still wasn’t going anywhere.
“It just felt like it was starting to rip my leg and my whole hips off my body,” Jessika shares.
Ryan was eventually able to get Jessika out, but then got stuck himself.
Jessika attempted to free her boyfriend for a good 30 minutes, but soon knew she needed to go find more help. So, off she ventured on a solo three-hour hike in the frigid cold and blowing show to get back in range of cell reception so she could call 911.
She shares that the only thing scarier than hiking alone was having to leave the love of her life along in sinking quicksand, not knowing what type of scene she’d come back to.
Jessika suffered hypothermia along her hike to find help, but never gave up.
“You see this stuff in movies and you don’t think it would happen to you and then it is and survival mode kicks in,” Jessika said. “I didn’t know if I would for sure make it out. I didn’t know if I could do that hike alone before I was going to faint.”
Fortunately, she got to a point where she could call 911 and help arrived in time to save Ryan as well, two hours later.
Of the pain he felt being pulled out of freezing quicksand, Ryan relays, “The best way to describe it would be just standing in a huge puddle of concrete that basically just dries instantly. Your foot doesn’t move. You can move the sand a couple of inches at the top of [the] leg where my waist is at, but just as quick as you can move it, the sand refills, so there’s no chance of moving at all.”
Ryan also suffered hypothermia and other injuries, but the couple are expected to be alright, thanks to the rescuers who kept them warm and in good spirits all night until
He suffered hypothermia, exposure and other injuries but both of them are expected to be OK.
They thanked the rescuers who they say kept them warm and in good spirits all night, until a helicopter could arrive the next day to bring them to safety and send them in an ambulance to the hospital.
