![]() "One guy scraping sand away, they were able to free my leg. When park rangers found him, Osmun recalled that one of them said, "You should be dead or unconscious right now," according to ABC News.īut even after rescuers arrived, it took an additional two hours to free Osmun. Because there is essentially only one way to go in the slot canyon, officials knew they'd eventually find Osmun. As McNeill was attended to by officials, rescuers began their journey into the Subway area of the park. Park rangers immediately responded to the mouth of the canyon. "I was on the line with 911 and I realized I was going to faint right there," she told NBC News. … I'm just so close and to make it and do it for him."Īfter three hours, she finally had cellphone service and called 911. "I kept telling myself he would do it for me. "I did realize the fastest way to get back was not switchbacking and trying to stay on the ground, I just decided to swim down the river," she told "Today." "There was a couple of times I thought I might as well turn back and we can be together for the last moments."īut instead of hiking back the same way they came, McNeill said she decided to wade down through the rapids of the frigid river. I didn’t even know if I would be able to do that hike by myself," she told ABC News. Likewise, McNeill called her hike out of the canyon "the hardest thing I’ve had to do, scariest thing. "I just hoped the best for her, honestly, because I didn't feel like I was going to make it out." "When she left, I was really scared, mostly for her," Osmun continued. … I didn’t know if I would see her again. Osmun put on his best face as he encouraged her to get help, but said, "I thought for sure when she left that I would lose my leg. He eventually told me I needed to leave him to hike back to get cell service,” she told ABC News. But he’s obviously twice my size, so that wasn’t working. "I told him to use my body to pull himself. The sand had surrounded the whole leg and I couldn't move it," he told "CBS This Morning." "The best way to describe it would be … standing in a huge puddle of concrete that basically dries instantly." ![]() "There was no chance of moving it at all. Then one of Osmun's legs became stuck in quicksand and he couldn't move. "I sank first and then he came and got me, and then he sank," McNeill told the "Today" show. Osmun, of Mesa, Arizona, and McNeill went hiking in the Left Fork of North Creek, also known as the Subway, on Saturday.Ībout four hours into the hike, the couple got stuck in quicksand. Osmun, 34, and his girlfriend, Jessika McNeill, made the rounds on national morning TV shows Tuesday, recounting their harrowing experience and their dramatic rescue. ![]() There were two snowstorms while I was waiting, just sitting in the water. "The water was so cold, I thought I was going to lose my leg," Osmun told "Good Morning America" about becoming trapped in quicksand in the middle of a creek. SALT LAKE CITY - Ryan Osmun admits he had doubts he would ever make it out of Zion National Park.
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