A hiker who went missing in a New York state park was rescued from a steep cliff on Wednesday after a jogger heard his cries for help, authorities said.
Mandeep Tiwana, 46, of Upper Nyack, was reported missing after he did not return from a hike at Nyack Beach State Park on Tuesday, WABC-TV reported.
Officials with the Clarkstown Police Department said Tiwana was found after a jogger heard him yelling in a heavily wooded area along the Nyack Beach trail, according to the Rockland/Westchester Journal News.
Elyse Vandorpe was running along the trail when she heard a man’s voice coming from a ledge above Nyack Beach, WABC reported.
“I was a quarter-mile down and I heard somebody screaming like, ‘Help me, help me,’” Vandorpe told the television station. “I tried to scream up the mountain, and they started communicating with me.”
According to a news release from the Clarkstown Police Department, paramedics found Tiwana “in steep, rough terrain.” He could only be rescued by the Nyack Fire Department’s High Angle Rescue team.
Tiwana was placed in a rescue basket and raised to a hiking trail, the Journal News reported. He was taken to an area hospital with injuries that were not considered to be life-threatening.