Weekend walkers were quick to act after they heard cries for help coming from near a clifftop.
The coastguard found a man in a "slightly precarious position" after hearing cries for help from over the clifftop in Hastings.
People out for a Sunday evening walk dialled 999 after hearing the desperate cries of a man stuck in dense shrubbery in Hastings County Park.
They used precise mapping platform WhatThreeWords to tell the Coastguard where they heard the cries coming from.
The RNLI Lifeboat from Hastings was also sent out on the mission shortly before 6pm to help find the source of the calls from the shoreline, alongside coastguard teams from Rye with equipment for a rope rescue over the clifftop.
Coastguard officers finally found the man in dense vegetation in the country park, and helped remove him from the "slightly precarious position".
He was escorted back to the car park where he could go home.
The public have been praised for their quick thinking after hearing the cries, dialling 999 and asking for the coastguard.
A spokesman for the lifesaving organisation said: "Having located the casulty in dense vegetation and in a slightly precarious position our Coastguard Rescue Officers were able to use their extensive local area knowledge to access the casulty on foot, and escorted him back to the car park for his onward journey home.
"The members of the public exactly the right thing by dialling 999 and asking for the coastguard when they heard someone in difficulty."
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