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A 33-year-old hiker was stuck for hours in quicksand at Utah's Arches National Park on Dec. 7

Rescue teams used a drone to pinpoint the man's exact location before he was pulled to safety

Footage of the complex rescue was captured on camera

A hiker in Utah was stuck in near-freezing quicksand for several hours before a drone helped locate him. A rescue team was able to pull the man to safety.

The adventure-film-like scene began on the morning of Sunday, Dec. 7, when 33-year-old Austin Dirks was on his second day of a 20-mile backpacking expedition in Arches National Park and became trapped in quicksand near Courthouse Wash, he told Backpacker .

“I’m no stranger to getting my feet wet, or, you know, having to trudge through mud even,” Dirks, an experienced hiker from

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