A person was rescued after becoming stranded on the Elie Chainwalk. Image: Steve Brown/DC Thomson
A man had to be rescued from the Elie Chain Walk after getting into difficulty on Saturday afternoon.
Coastguard teams from Kinghorn, Leven and St Andrews were all called out shortly before 2pm after the Aberdeen Coastguard Operations Centre received a call from a member of the public who was struggling near the end of the notorious route.
Both the inshore and the all weather lifeboats from Anstruther were also launched as part of the rescue effort, and it was the inshore crew who managed to reach the man who was in danger of being stranded as the tide came in.
He was taken to Elie harbour and checked over by paramedics, but he did not require any further medical treatment.
A spokesman for Kinghorn Coastguard confirmed that it had been tasked to back up the Leven and St Andrews coastguard teams with a “possible technical rescue”, but the man had been safely transferred on to the Anstruther inshore lifeboat before the teams arrived on scene.
All operations had been stood down by 4pm.
Thousands of people tackle the Chain Walk each year, but call-outs to the emergency services to help people are also a regular occurrence due to the nature of the rough terrain.
