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Pair hiking in Utah wilderness with no cell service gets caught in quicksand. The rescue took nearly 10 hours.

It was like a scene out of a horror movie: two hikers, alone in the frigid wilderness with no cell reception, suddenly stumbled into a pool of quicksand.

On Saturday, Ryan Osmun, 34, and and Jessika McNeill from Arizona were about three hours into the Subway trail route in Utah’s Zion National Park when their scenic walk took a turn. McNeill tripped, landing in quicksand. When Osmun attempted to rescue her, he too became trapped and buried up to his knee for nearly 10 hours.

"There was no chance of moving it at all," Osmun told CBS News.