‘There was bone showing’: Horror at Uluru as girl, 12, plunges 30 METRES while climbing the sacred rock with her parents – as tourists flock to scale the monolith before it’s banned forever
- A young girl has been rushed to hospital after slipping 30 metres on Uluru
- Isabella, 12, was walking down the sacred rock in the Northern Territory
- Her terrified mother watched on as her daughter tumbled down the steep rock
- Paramedics feared she had critical injuries as she was bloodied and bruised
- The fall comes days before tourists are banned from climbing the sacred rock
A young girl has been rushed to hospital after slipping 30 metres while climbing Uluru with her family.
Isabella Schiller, 12, was climbing the rock in the Northern Territory with her parents and younger brother on Monday when she lost her footing.
Her mother Tonia was left to helplessly watch on as her daughter tumbled down the steep rock.
Isabella was bloodied and bruised and had to be carried down by other climbers.
She suffered a compound finger fracture, an ankle injury, and cuts and abrasions from the fall.
Isabella Schiller, 12, (pictured) was climbing the sacred rock in the Northern Territory with her parents and younger brother on Monday when she lost her footing
Her mother Tonia was left to helplessly watch on in horror as her daughter tumbled down the steep rock (pictured)
She was flown by the Royal Flying Doctors Service to Yulara Medical Service.
Paramedics feared her injuries would be critical given the distance she fell.
Ms Schiller shared on Facebook how her birthday spent with family ‘kicking items off the bucket list’ turned into a horror movie.
‘Very lucky little girl to be here and we are grateful beyond words,’ the Facebook post read.
‘To watch your child fall from that height and not be able to reach her and then Telstra had an outage. No words – you really have no idea how isolated you are.
‘Issy is awake now and with more surgery this morning we know with time and help and rehab my precious little girl will be fine.’
Troy Dicks, a flight nurse with the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS), told ABC Isabella was lucky she was not more seriously injured.
She sustained a ‘nasty finger injury’.
Uluru will be closed off to climbers in October 26 after a decision was made to prevent future scaling of the sacred site
‘It was a compound fracture. So there was bone showing.
‘She was covered in grazes because she had rolled down Uluru quite a lot and [that] took a lot of skin off.
‘She also had an ankle injury. I’m not sure whether it was broken or not but it was certainly swollen and deformed.’
The incident comes just days before a ban to climb the rock comes into effect on October 26.
The Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park board decided unanimously they would forbid people from climbing the sacred rock in 2017.
Fears have been raised in the past few months over tourists flocking to climb the rock before the closure.