Firefighters in northern China rescued a man trapped in a 70-metre-high cave on a vertical cliff.

The video, filmed in the city of Shangqiu in Shaanxi Province on May 25, shows a firemen tied by safety ropes climbing down the around a hundred-metre-high mountain through a rope ladder, to approach the man who got stuck in a cave.

After attaching the safe ropes onto the man, the fireman let him to climb up through the rope ladder.

According to reports, the 20-year-old man is a resident from nearby village. He climbed the mountain for fun but got trapped in a cave.

The video was provided by local media with permission.