<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A death-defying rescue was performed after a climber fell eight metres while trying to scale an Australian peak.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The woman, in her 40s, was at Mount Buffalo in Victoria's High Country when her gear failed, sending her plunging around two storeys on to a rock ledge.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She was knocked unconscious, had broken ribs and was stranded.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/police-intelligence-in-spotlight-bondi-terror-attack-royal-commission-antisemitism/bbd6b768-7157-46f2-9d8f-55a7e2277159"><strong><span>Synagogue killings sparked warning before Bondi attack</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Horn is the most prominent peak on the Mount Buffalo plateau in Victoria, at 1723 metres.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Footage shows the delicate rescue by a Helicopter Emergency Medical Service crew unfolding.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A rescuer, MICA Flight Paramedic Shaun Whitmore, was winched out of the helicopter in the precarious feat.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/cliff-rescue-victoria-mt-buffalo-climber/f69e7f59-c414-4310-8998-b61a615ef6e6" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He stabilised the woman, provided splinting and pain relief, and prepared her for rescue in "extremely tight conditions", Ambulance Victoria said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/cathay-pacific-flight-turbulence-brisbane/0f4d24f9-66e2-4326-bf2e-a7820d206766"><strong><span>Ten hurt after plane hit with turbulence from Brisbane to Hong Kong</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She was lifted into the helicopter on a stretcher and taken to ground level in the national park before being flown to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a stable condition.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The accident happened on March 22 but the footage has just been released.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/dezi-freeman-neal-thompson-vadim-de-waart-hottart-deaths-coronial-investigation/9e7bca65-b3d3-40eb-89f6-c093c9225ef3"><strong><span>What Dezi Freeman texted wife moments after shooting</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div>