A trekker who fell at least 200 feet into a gorge at Nandi Hill, about 60 km from Bengaluru, was rescued by the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the national and State disaster response forces, a police official said.

The 19-year-old victim from Delhi studying in an engineering college in Bengaluru fell into the gorge and got trapped, Superintendent of Police of Chikkaballapura G K Mithun Kumar told PTI. "Nishank had come alone for trekking and fell into the gorge. After slipping, he fortunately got stuck. Had he slipped from there, he would have fallen into a cliff of about 300 feet below," Kumar said.