A man trapped behind a waterfall in the Sequoia National Forest was hoisted out by helicopter after being stuck there for two days, according to the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office.

In a video the office posted to social media on Wednesday, one deputy is seen being lowered from a helicopter into a nook behind the cascading waterfall on the Seven Teacups Trail to reach 46-year-old Ryan Wardwell of Long Beach.

Wardwell embarked on the trail Sunday morning to rappel the waterfalls but was reported missing on Monday. He was last seen at the top of the waterfalls on Sunday evening, near the North Fork of the Kern River.

The Sheriff’s Office identified Wardwell’s location using cameras and infrared technology attached to aircraft and devised a rescue plan to retrieve him by dawn the next mor

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