This is the terrifying moment a tourist became stuck on a zip-line for over an hour and a half after the ride came to a grinding halt, leaving him dangling mid-air at 200 ft.
The shocking incident occurred on Tuesday in Presa de los Caballeros Via Ferrata, an area that is popular for adventure sports, near Malaga.
Footage shows the unnamed Spanish man hanging from a rope in a rocky canyon, as firefighters are seen standing on a suspension bridge above him while they ready themselves to rescue him.
Emergency services rushed to the site, but the rescue operation proved difficult and lasted more than an hour and a half, according to Spanish news outlet Antena 3.
Firefighters said they had to use a technical maneuver to reach the man from the bridge, and had to position themselves around 50 and 65 ft above the hanging man so that they could hoist him up to safety.
‘The rescue was successful and without the need for medical assistance’, the Provincial Fire Consortium of Malaga said after the rescue operation was complete.
Presa de los Caballeros, which is frequented by hikers and adventure sport enthusiasts, runs over an old dam and includes a 230 ft-long suspension bridge and a zip-line, as well as an underground passage.
It comes just a few weeks after firefighters were called to the same area to rescue a woman who became trapped on a zip-line, according to local press.
A man in Spain was left dangling 200ft above the ground after his zip-line became stuck
The incident took place on Tuesday in Presa de los Caballeros Via Ferrata in Malaga
It also comes several months after a little girl was left dangling at 330 ft above the cliffs after coming to a grinding halt on a zip-line in Bali.
Shocking footage shows the girl trying to rock back and forth to move along the zipline cable, with her inching forward very slowly on the Flying Fox zipline on Nusa Penida, a small island located near the southeastern Indonesian island of Bali.
Meanwhile the girl’s terrified mother, alongside several British tourists, watched on in horror from below as the girl is hanging 330ft over the ocean in the video filmed in July last year.
Nusa Penida’s police chief told local media that the ‘foreign child’ was stuck on the zipline for about three minutes before she managed to rock herself to the other side. The girl was not injured.
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