AIR Ambulance paramedics were scrambled after a walker fell 60 feet down a cliff face.

The man, 62, plummeted down a sheer drop at a beauty spot on Frodsham Hill yesterday afternoon.

Mersey Regional Ambulance Service dispatched the Blackpool-based air ambulance which was on scene within 15 minutes to support the road ambulance crew.

Paramedics say an eyewitness saw the man fall 40 feet before striking a ledge. He rolled off and fell another 20 feet before coming to rest near the footpath to Jacob's Ladder.

The road ambulance was able to get within about half a mile of the accident site and a crew member guided the helicopter in from above by waving a red cloth so it could land on the greens of the nearby golf course.

Paramedics reached the walker, believed to have a fractured thigh bone, via the footpath. He had head injuries but was conscious and breathing.

Paul West, operations manager for the North West Air Ambulance (NWAA), said: 'He fell down a cliff and landed on a rocky outcrop at the bottom just one or two feet out and then rolled further onto the footpath at the bottom. '