Northern Territory Emergency Service volunteers were called to conduct a vertical rescue last night after a woman became stranded on a ledge at Simpsons Gap.

NTES members received the report just before 6pm that a 20-year-old German tourist was trapped on a ledge approximately 35 metres up the Eastern face of Simpsons Gap.

Four volunteers and one NTES staff member attended the scene along with Parks and Wildlife rangers and a St John Ambulance crew.

Rescuers took approximately three hours to bring the woman down safely.

She sustained mild hyperthermia but was otherwise unharmed.


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