Cliff rescue

This is a first for me. We are located on the edge of a golf course and a cliff that overlooks the ocean. This afternoon I saw a helicopter circle the hole on the course we view a couple of times and then landed. Two individuals stepped out of the helicopter one with a harness of some type. The helicopter took off again with the man in the harness connected to a tether. This man was lowered over the side of the cliff out of sight and the helicopter raised up again. A few minutes later the helicopter returned, lowered the tether, and the raised back up.

This is the full-size image of the two individuals linked from the tether from the image I compressed above. The individual brought up was dressed in a t-shirt and shorts (the yellow and orange is part of a chair like device).

I don't think this was a training exercise. The man "rescued" was standing, but taken to an ambulance. I was using a telephoto so you don't see the perspective of the golf course and cliff, but this image was what I was able to capture at maximum magnification. It appeared the individual was part way down the cliff (not in the water) and either was hurt or could not get back up without assistance.