Hiker Bitten By Deadly Snake Rescued From Remote Gorge
The unnamed 27-year-old, reported to be from the Perth metro area, was bitten by the venomous mulga, also known as the king brown snake, during a hike in Western Australia’s Karijini National Park. The incident took place at around 3 p.m. local time Sunday while she was hiking with friends at the Dales Gorge in the park’s remote Fortescue Falls area, Australia’s 7NEWS reported. The rescue operation took several hours to locate the woman who was stranded in Western Australia’s second largest national park, which spans 627,422 hectares (nearly 2,500 square miles)....