![]() "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. In 2013, Army Captain Joseph Eros died while trying to cross from Fire Island back to Anchorage.Įarlier this month, a man was rescued from the mudflats after one leg became stuck, and he sank to his waist while fishing in Turnagain Arm.SALT LAKE CITY - Ryan Osmun admits he had doubts he would ever make it out of Zion National Park. His body was never found, the Anchorage newspaper reported. In 1978, an unnamed Air Force sergeant attempting to cross Turnagain Arm was swept away with the leading edge of the tide. She then became stuck when trying to push it out and drowned with the incoming tide. In 1988, newlyweds Adeana and Jay Dickison were gold-dredging on the eastern end of the arm when her ATV got stuck in the mud, the Anchorage Daily News reported. There have been other deaths on the mud flats. Some people attempt to walk across Turnagain Arm or walk the 14 kilometres from Anchorage to Fire Island during low tide, sometimes prompting rescue efforts. Signs are posted warning people of hazardous waters and mud flats. When the tide comes back in, the silt gets wet from the bottom, loosens up and can create a vacuum if a person walks on it. "It looks like it's solid, but it's not." "This is a hard situation."Īt low tide, Turnagain Arm is known for its mudflats that "can suck you down," Ms Peterson said. "I have been in contact with all my members, and they're all heartbroken," Ms Peterson said. The volunteer members of the department will gather later in the week for a debriefing, she said. "But you have to remember that it's Mother Nature, and she has no mercy for humanity."
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