Drones with floodlights were used to light up the area as rescuers abseiled to her in a rescue which took six hours.
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A woman in her 20s has been rescued in a six hour operation in darkness after she plunged 10 metres down a mountain on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.

The woman fell down the steep face of Mt Tibrogargan in the Glass House Mountains on Thursday night.

Drones with floodlights were used to light up the area as rescuers abseiled to her in a rescue which took six hours.

Drones with floodlights were used to light up the area as rescuers abseiled to her in a rescue which took six hours.
Drones with floodlights were used to light up the area as rescuers abseiled to her in a rescue which took six hours. (Queensland Fire Service)

Queensland Fire Service spokesman Ben Walker said it was the woman’s first time going up the mountain, which is in a national park.

“The path that she had taken up the mountain, I wouldn’t describe as hiking,” he said.

“It’s more scrambling, almost rock climbing.”

The rescue mission involved four separate abseil “stations” to get the woman safely back down to the ground.

Video footage showing the painstaking rescue has been released.

The woman suffered minor injuries to her hands and stomach but did not need hospital treatment. 

The incident has prompted a safety warning for wannabe climbers to be prepared.

“Certainly get out and enjoy the mountains, but be prepared to have the right sort of ability and equipment with you,” Walker said.

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