![]() I spoke with rangers and they say the couple was prepared, experienced, and did what they needed to do, and this was just a freak accident. Ryan said he wouldn't be alive had it not been for Jessika and the rangers. That's where he reunited with Jessika and found out when crews got to her she also had hypothermia and had passed out. Ryan had hypothermia and some minor injuries and was taken to the hospital. “ Feel very lucky to be alive and to have my leg,” Ryan said. “It was pouring snow worse than it had been the whole time,” Ryan said.Ĭrews were worried they'd have to stay another night, but then a small break in the storm allowed a DPS helicopter to hoist Ryan out. The snowstorm forced Ryan and the rangers to stay the night, but when they woke up in the morning. “I just felt relief I just felt like I was going to be OK,” Ryan said. Ryan, now convinced he would lose his leg, had to wait an hour for three other rangers to show up. Together they managed to get him free. My whole hips felt like they were ripping out,” Ryan said. “He started to pull on that, but it just felt like it was ripping my leg off. Then he saw the ranger who tried using a rope and pully to get him out. I didn't think that it was real,” Ryan said. ![]() “I had seen a flash of light, and at that point, I thought I was dreaming. I couldn't, I couldn't really control to hold myself up,” Ryan said.Įxhausted, Ryan fell asleep and collapsed into the near-freezing water eight hours after Jessika left. “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,” Ryan said. ![]() Still soaking wet, Jessika started the four-hour hike back to get cell service. “That's when I started to panic a little bit and I got scared,” Ryan said. No matter what they tried, Ryan's leg wouldn't budge. “But every second she would scrape it would just fill back up instantly,” Ryan said. Jessika desperately tried to dig out his leg. It felt like it had dried instantly I couldn't move my leg at all,” Ryan said. “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,” Ryan said. ![]() Jessika’s leg sunk in the mud, she tripped and fell forward into the water. He and his girlfriend Jessika were almost to the Subway in Zion when their hike took a turn for the worse. “We got about four and a half miles in,” said Ryan Osmun. It was just pouring snow.SPRINGDALE, Utah - A hiker was stuck in quicksand for almost 10 hours at Zion National Park over the weekend in a remote area. 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 said. It took rescuers two hours to free him from the quicksand. "I just hoped the best for her, honestly, because I didn't feel like I was going to make it out."Īfter several hours of searching, rangers located Osmun, who was suffering from exposure, hypothermia and extremity injuries. "When she left, I was really scared, mostly for her," Osmun said. By that time, the sun was starting to set. Rangers with the Zion Search and Rescue found her close to the trail head and treated her for hypothermia, according to the National Park Service. McNeill hiked three hours back to find cellphone service and call for help. "It was the hardest thing I've had to do, the scariest thing I had to do." Is it possible to survive being stuck in quicksand Jonny Phillips risks life and limb to experience firsthand what it is like to slowly sink into quicksand. "I knew the only way to save his life was to leave him, but I didn't know if he had the time left," she said.
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