Man saved after 100ft shaft plunge
RESCUERS have saved a middle-aged man who fell 100ft down a mine shaft.
It took three hours to reach the 55 year old, believed to have hurt his hip in the fall. He was also suffering hypothermia.
A paramedic and a firefighter were lowered on ropes and gave first aid.
More than six hours after, the plunge the victim was hauled to the surface of the disused shaft in Porth Nanven, Cornwall, and flown to hospital.
The Coastguard said the call for help was made just after midday and the rescue had been “complex”.
The shaft is on a coastal path near St Just and within a world heritage mining site. The National Trust says one area has a sign that reads “mine shaft, danger of death”.