Crews rescue hiker who fell off 50-foot cliff at Kentucky's Red River Gorge

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Rescuers pulled a man to safety after he fell off a 50-foot cliff in the Red River Gorge area in southeastern Kentucky.

A man left his home Thursday evening, July 17 and went into the woods, according to Wolfe County Search and Rescue Team in a post on its Facebook page.

The man didn't return the next morning, and his family went to search for him. They heard him crying for help below a cliff in the area of Tarr Road in Rogers, about 65 miles southeast of Lexington. Officials said the man fell 50 feet and then continued to tumble down a steep hill and a series of smaller cliffs.

A paramedic rappelled down to access him, and the team lifted the man up by a rope system and basket. He was then carried out of the woods to an awaiting ambulance, and was taken to Clark Regional Hospital in Winchester, Kentucky.

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