A California man who was trapped behind a waterfall for two days in the Sequoia National Forest was rescued early Tuesday, authorities said.

The man, Ryan Wardwell, 46, of Long Beach, California, who was found with minor injuries and suffering from dehydration, was located by rescue crews operating a drone near where he had last been spotted, the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement posted on social media. He had been seen Sunday evening at the top of the Seven Teacups waterfalls, near the north fork of the Kern River.

Wardwell told officials that he had planned to rappel the waterfalls but became trapped “because of the extreme hydraulics of the river,” the sheriff’s office said.

Video of the rescue, also shared online by the sheriff’s office, shows a California Highway P

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