EDMONTON -- An Edmonton woman had to be rescued after the horse she was riding fell on her Saturday, RCMP said.

Hinton RCMP were called to a remote location in the Cadomin area near Whitehorse Creek, Alta., at approximately 11:30 a.m.

The woman, Kimberly Corbiere, and her boyfriend Eric Gauthier, were out for what was supposed to be an easy ride, according to Gauthier.

“I was ahead of her when it happened so I didn’t get to see exactly what happened,” said Gauthier. “(The horse) ended up coming over backwards on top of her on the side of the mountain.”

Gauthier said because the trails in the area aren’t well marked he had to leave Corbiere with a satellite communicator and dog while he went for help.

“I met one of the outfitters in the area (who) had started on his way in to find us… it’s nice that there was people trying to help up there.”

The outfitter Gauthier met was Donald McClanaghan, who happened to run into RCMP officers while out on a pack trip.

McClanaghan offered to help the officers with their search, since he's familiar with the area, and searching on horseback would be faster than the officers searching on foot.

"She wasn't where they thought she may be, [so I] rode back out and rode back in to another area, and ran into her boyfriend," said McClanaghan. "And I brought him back to the RCMP officers, and he led them back to her."

He said he had been searching for abour an hour when he finally ran into Gauthier, and says he was just doing what he could to help out.

"Nothing nobody else wouldn't've done," said McClanaghan. "I would hope somebody would do it if I was in that same position."

Emergency personnel carried the woman for approximately a kilometre-and-a-half before she was taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries, police said.

“It was not an easy recovery at all… a big shout out to the EMS and the RCMP and the conservation officers that assisted in the rescue.”

The horse was “a little banged up” but did not suffer any serious injuries.

Gauthier said that while Corbiere is feeling a bit “timid” about the idea of getting back on a horse, she plans to do so again when she is able.

Gauthier urged people to be prepared before going into the back country.

“This outcome was good and it could have been a lot worse.”