Injured hiker trapped on mountain days after woman fell to her death

Emergency services have returned to Mount Beerwah to rescue an injured hiker days after an 18-year-old woman fell to her death from the same trail.

Two fire crews and paramedics arrived at the scene about 7am on Wednesday after receiving a call that a pair of hikers needed rescuing.

One hiker was injured, and the other hiker had remained with them.

The call comes days after an 18-year-old woman and her partner fell from the trail, with the pair plummeting between 60 metres and 90 metres down a cliff face.

The woman was declared dead at the scene while the man, also 18, was transported to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital.

Police suspected the pair might have fallen because of slippery conditions on the trail.

Mount Beerwah and its one official trail – which tracks to the summit 556 metres above sea level – had been closed until Tuesday from March 9 following heavy rains in the region that park officials suspected could have made the route treacherous.

An alert posted to the Queensland Parks and Forests website earlier this week advised the trail would be assessed by rangers on Tuesday, and the park was reopened on Wednesday.

On Monday, rescue crews also winched a group of six young men, all aged between 18 and 19 years, from Mount Barney, a peak measuring 1359 metres about 120 kilometres south-west of Brisbane.

The group had become lost overnight, but no one had been injured.

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