‘I’m going to die’: hiker recalls harrowing night trapped under 10,000lb boulder

Kevin DePaolo was hiking in the Inyo mountains when the rock dislodged and pinned him under for nearly 10 hours

A hiker who spent hours trapped and badly injured under a nearly 10,000lb boulder on a remote California mountainside has spoken out about the ordeal, saying he thought to himself: I'm going to die up here."

Kevin DePaolo was hiking with a friend in the Inyo mountains earlier this month when the rock unexpectedly dislodged, he told the New York Times in one of his first interviews since the accident on 5 December.