Bushwalker crawls for two days with broken leg after falling down 6-metre waterfall | ABC News

A seasoned bushwalker, who fractured his leg and wrist on a solo walk on Mount Nebo, north-west of Brisbane, has been winched to safety.

Brisbane Bushwalkers hiking guide Neil Parker, 54, was at Cabbage Tree Creek when he fell down a 6-metre waterfall.

He broke his leg and wrist but somehow managed the strength to crawl for kilometres in a two-day ordeal.

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