Utah hiker stuck in quicksand Patch#

Ryan was stuck for 12 hours as the rescue team took three hours to find him. But the hole was refilling faster than she could pull the sand out.Īfter a few minutes of extreme pain and what felt like his leg getting ripped off, he was finally free and saved from freezing to death. There was no cell reception, and a blizzard started to form in the area.Jessika gave him sticks to jam down beside his stuck leg while she started scooping the sand with both her hands.

Utah hiker stuck in quicksand Patch#

Then he stepped in a tiny patch of quicksand, which completely swallowed his leg. Let’s go back to Ryan Osmun.He was crossing a pond in Utah’s Zion National Park with his girlfriend, Jessika. If you think an hour is a long time to be trapped in quicksand, just wait until you hear our number one story. Meanwhile, the boy began to suffer from hypothermia and lost the feeling in his leg.After almost an hour, they finally freed the boy, who escaped with just mild hypothermia. They used driftwood and tree branches to make a platform to keep everyone from being sucked in further. But with all this movement, the firefighters also started sinking. They had to dig with their hands to release the boy’s leg. His father and three firefighters started pulling on the boy, but he remained trapped.