A young teaching student has died after slipping 20 metres down a waterfall in the Blue Mountains near Sydney.
The 21-year-old sustained head and chest injuries when she fell into Empress Falls near Wentworth Falls yesterday. She died of her injuries in Westmead Hospital earlier today.
Singaporean national Cheng Shi Min, also known as Angel, was a keen bushwalker and had taken her boyfriend, and her father on the Valley of the Waters walking track, which she’d previously trekked solo.
Her boyfriend, Henry Yendle, told Fairfax Media his girlfriend been peering over the top of the falls when she lost her footing and fell.
“I rushed down, along with her father, as quickly as we could,” he said. “I tossed basically everything out of my pockets and jumped in the pool and I found her lying face down in the water … I flipped her over as quickly as possible and tried to pull her out.”
Mr Yendle said the water was freezing but, with the help of people nearby, they eventually pulled her out of the falls.
It took an hour for paramedics to arrive on foot as strong winds prevented a helicopter from winching her out. Ms Cheng was eventually carried out of the bushland on a stretcher.
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