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Student critical after falling from cliff on school camp in Grampians

A young girl is fighting for life after falling headfirst down a cliff while on school camp in the Grampians.

The year-eight student is in a critical condition at the Royal Children's Hospital after falling six metres on to rocks on Thursday afternoon.

She was with ten classmates and teachers from Moama Anglican Grammar while bushwalking on a school camp when it is believed she simply tripped and took the hard fall.

The student fell headfirst from the five-metre cliff. Source: 7 News
The student fell headfirst from the five-metre cliff. Source: 7 News

Several of her fellow students witnessed the fall.

The 13-year-old was knocked unconscious and suffered critical head and chest injuries and fractures.

Mount Stapylton is about 300km from Melbourne. Source: Google Maps
Mount Stapylton is about 300km from Melbourne. Source: Google Maps
It took five hours for the girl to be rescued. Source: 7 News
It took five hours for the girl to be rescued. Source: 7 News

The girl was on the rocks for five hours as emergency services prepared her retrieval from the scene near Mount Stapylton, nearly 300 kilometres northwest of Melbourne.

It took more than an hour for the rescue crew to reach the site.

The student remains in a critical condition. Source: 7 News
The student remains in a critical condition. Source: 7 News

The girl was placed in an induced coma and winched by the aerial ambulance and moved to a nearby clearing where she was stabilised and flown to Melbourne.

The girl remains critical and on life support in intensive care after emergency surgery overnight. Her parents are by her bedside.