It was a Hollywood style rescue for this elderly woman hiker who fell off a trail and clung on the side of a cliff by hanging to tree roots.?
The incident took place in California's Rubio Canyon, when the 69-year-old woman was hiking with a man when she somehow ended up away from the trail.
In that incident, a 69-year-old Altadena woman was clinging to shrubs on a cliffside as the dirt crumbled beneath her.?
?Video of the rescue shows the woman dangling from the cliff as a rescuer is lowered to her from the helicopter
But just as he begins to manoeuvre into position, she loses her grip and starts to slip down.??Luckily, the rescuer got back into position and managed to lift her up to safety.??
The?rescuer was connected to a cable that was used to lower him down near the hiker and then grab the woman at the last moment.?
The woman was around 100 feet from the bottom of the canyon, the Special Enforcement Bureau of the Los Angeles Sheriff¡¯s Department said in a statement.