Aussie trapped between two giant boulders after dropping her iPhone

A woman who got wedged between rocks for seven hours after she tried to retrieve her phone has been rescued.

Emergency services were called to bushland in the Hunter Valley wine region earlier this month following reports of a woman being stuck between two boulders.

The NSW woman had tried to retrieve her phone from between the rocks but had slipped, fallen down a three-metre crevice, and was hanging upside down.

Friends spent about an hour trying to rescue her but eventually called for help.

NSW Ambulance Specialist Rescue Paramedic Peter Watts led a team that began by building a hardwood frame around the area before starting the arduous task of removing the rocks.

Photos of the rescue mission showed the soles of the woman's feet visible as she hung upside down inside the dark hole.

The woman was stuck in a tight 'S' bend which prevented her being simply lifted out, and rescuers spent over an hour trying to navigate through the tight space.

Before they could extract her, they used a special winch to move a massive 500kg boulder. 

'In my 10 years as a rescue paramedic I had never encountered a job quite like this, it was challenging but incredibly rewarding,' Peter Watts said.

'Every agency had a role, and we all worked incredibly well together to achieve a good outcome for the patient.'

NSW Ambulance said the woman was safely freed after seven hours with only minor scratches and bruises, but without her phone.