Climber rescued after cliff fall
A CLIMBER had to be rescued from Le Gouffre, yesterday after falling 20 feet down a cliff.
The incident happened at about 3pm.
A coastguard officer and paramedics attended the scene to make an initial assessment. After meeting one of the other climbers, it was quickly established that the Guernsey Cliff Rescue team and RNLI Lifeboats would be required in order to carry out the rescue.
Both St Peter Port All Weather Lifeboat and the Inshore Lifeboat were launched at 3.43pm.
Cliff Rescue arrived on scene at 3.49pm and after assessing the situation, it was determined that the safest means to extract the casualty was to lower him to the base of the cliff and to transfer him into one of the waiting lifeboats.
While the cliff rescue was being set up, the inshore lifeboat collected a paramedic from the beach at Petit Bot.
The casualty was safely lowered to the base of the cliff and transferred to the all weather lifeboat via dinghy, with the cliff rescue team. Both lifeboats arrived back in St Peter Port shortly after 5.30pm, where the casualty was transferred to a waiting ambulance having suffered injuries to his legs and arms.
A Guernsey Coastguard spokesman said; 'This was an excellent demonstration of multiagency working with assets from the Guernsey Cliff Rescue Team, RNLI Lifeboats, St John Ambulance Service and Guernsey Coastguard all contributing to a successful rescue.'
