A young person is recovering in hospital after falling 15 metres from a cliff right into a tree within the Hunter area of NSW, rescuers say.
Paramedics have been referred to as to the Hunter River Reserve at Greta, north-west of Newcastle, simply earlier than 4pm on Tuesday.
NSW Ambulance mentioned the teenager was discovered "tangled in a tree" with a damaged leg after falling about 15 metres.
Two paramedics and a essential care paramedic roped all the way down to stabilise the teenager earlier than he was winched out simply after 7pm.
NSW Ambulance Inspector Joel De'Zuna praised the "superb" work of paramedics who labored with police, firefighters and VRA Rescue NSW members to free the teenager.
"The affected person was in a particularly precarious place a lot of metres from the underside of the cliff," he mentioned, in an announcement.
"What was already a troublesome and complicated vertical rescue, grew to become much more troublesome as we misplaced the daylight and it began to rain."
The teenager was taken to Newcastle's John Hunter Hospital in a steady situation.