Seriously injured hiker rescued by emergency services in ten hour effort near Christmas Creek

An hours-long rescue effort unfolded on a popular hiking track on Sunday night to save an injured hiker trapped in dense bushland. Read the full details.

Injured hiker rescued after nine hour operation at Larapinta Falls. Picture: Bob Fairless

An hours-long rescue effort unfolded in the hinterland on Sunday night to save an injured hiker trapped in dense bushland.

Emergency Services were called to the popular Larapinta Falls walking track near Christmas Creek about 4pm to reports of a hiker that had fallen into a gully.

Paramedics were the first to make the near two-hour trek through rocky terrain to reach the injured woman.

A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said the patient, aged in her 60s, had sustained a serious leg injury and was treated at the scene by paramedics.

At about 9pm a second team of emergency services, including firefighters and a specialist technical rescue crew, entered the bushland.

A Queensland Fire Department (QFD) spokesman said they reached the patient shortly before midnight, loading her on to a stretcher.

The spokesman said the rescue teams returned to the entrance of the walking track about 3.30am where an ambulance was waiting.

She was taken to Gold Coast University Hospital where she remains in a stable condition.

Originally published as Seriously injured hiker rescued by emergency services in ten hour effort near Christmas Creek