Video: Hiker Rescued From Sheer Cliff in CA

Dec. 1—A hiker who got stuck on a cliff off Highway 1 north of Ragged Point had to be rescued via helicopter on Monday — and the entire ordeal was captured on video.

The footage, shared on Facebook by the CHP's Coastal Air Division, shows the male hiker hanging on a narrow ledge roughly a hundred feet below the roadway and several hundred feet above the crashing surf as a helicopter circles nearby.

According to CHP, the helicopter was dispatched around 3:30 p.m. Monday to help assist with rescuing the man, who was exhausted and stuck on the cliff-face.

The helicopter's crew used the aircraft's public address system to tell the man to remain where he was and reassure him, the CHP said, before going to the nearby Ragged Point Inn to pick up a rescuer from the San Luis Obispo County Urban Search and Rescue team.

The video shows as the rescuer is lowered with a Billy Pugh basket to the man on the cliff below.

As the hiker is put into the basket and lifted into the air, the helicopter hoist operator congratulates the rescuer on a smooth rescue.

"Sure went nice!" he says. "That was a full-out hoist. Wow!"

Once rescued, the hiker was taken to the Ragged Point Inn, where a medical crew from a Cambria Community Healthcare District ambulance assumed patient care, according to CHP.

Cal Fire, which assisted in the rescue, said the hiker was uninjured after the incident.

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