Neil Parker, 54, crawled two miles through snake-infested scrubland after his lower leg "clean snapped in half" and his wrist was broken in a fall at Mount Nebo in Australia. A hiker who plunged 20ft down a waterfall had to "carry" his broken leg as he crawled for two days through snake-infested scrubland. Neil Parker, 54, revealed his incredible feat of survival from his hospital bed while being treated for a fractured left leg and left wrist. The Australian man said he knew he was "in a lot of trouble" when he fell during a solo hike on Mount Nebo, about 20 miles west of Brisbane, and his lower leg "clean snapped in half". No-one knew where he was and he couldn't call for help because his mobile phone had been damaged in the fall, leaving him with no other choice but to crawl through the bush to a place where he could be rescued. Despite being in incredible pain, he crawled two miles over two days until he was spotted by a rescue helicopter and winched out on Tuesday afternoon.
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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. Neil Parker, 54, from the state of Queensland, was walking alone on Mount Nebo—a mountain located around 11 miles northwest of the city of Brisbane on Australia's east coast—when he fell, The Brisbane Times reported. Parker broke his leg and wrist in the fall. Furthermore, his phone was rendered unusable after being soaked in water so he couldn't call for help. 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.
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