Emergency services negotiate rocks while carrying a teenager to a waiting ambulance after he fell 5m down a cliff in Dunedin last night. Photo by Stephen Jaquiery.
Watching from the beach as emergency services worked to move the boy off rocks at the bottom of the cliff at the northern end of the beach, his friends, who identified the teen as Bradley Oliver (14), said he and two friends had intended to climb the cliff to a "hole" about 9m up when Bradley fell about 8.30pm.
One of the boys called 111 from a cellphone.
About 12 firefighters, police and ambulance officers combined forces to stretcher the teen out across the rocks and along the beach about 9.15pm.
A firefighter at the scene said the boy, who had a large cut to his head and a suspected broken arm or wrist, was lucky not to have been more seriously injured.
