![]() "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. SALT LAKE CITY - Ryan Osmun admits he had doubts he would ever make it out of Zion National Park.
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