A 23-metre winch operation was launched to rescue an injured Masterton woman from the bottom of a ravine in Ruakokoputuna on Sunday afternoon.
The Life Flight Westpac helicopter located the woman, who had fallen and fractured her leg, in a canyon in the Ruakokoputuna River.
Life Flight crewman Mike Beausoleil said the woman was 500 metres down the track from where the helicopter could have landed, "so it was decided to perform the winch operation to get a paramedic down to her".
"She was stuck in the bottom of a ravine essentially -- a canyon in the Ruakokoputuna River," he said.
"We knew going into the mission that this ravine was down quite a steep track, so we were prepared for the fact that it might have to be a winch operation to get her out safely."
