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A female hiker in her 20s has died after slipping while trying to retrieve a tripod that had fallen by a waterfall in a national park south-west of the Gold Coast.
Emergency services rushed to Yanbacoochie Falls in the Lamington National Park about 12.30pm yesterday.
But the woman was already dead.
She had been hiking with friends when they stopped to take photos using a tripod, a Queensland Police spokesperson said.
The tripod slid down a slope and the woman went down to fetch it when she fell.
“Her friends were calling out her name but she was unresponsive,” the spokesperson said.
It took Queensland Fire and Emergency Services crews six and a half hours to retrieve the woman’s body using vertical rescue equipment.
