'I slid about 20 foot, cartwheeled then slammed into the rock then landed in the creek at the bottom,' the hiker said,
An Australian hiker who fell 20 feet down a waterfall said he had to"carry his leg" while crawling for nearly two miles over the course of two days before he was rescued.
"Straight away I thought: 'Now I am in a lot of trouble, nobody knows where I am, I don't have a personal location beacon.'" "It's not a compound fracture. Close to it. It didn't break the skin but I have what's called compound blisters on my skin which are eight or nine inches long... I had to carry my leg, and legs are very heavy when they're not connected to anything," he said.
He used his hiking sticks to fashion a makeshift splint for his injured leg and began painstakingly crawling out of the creek
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