The man crashed onto rocks shortly after taking off (Picture: SolarPix)
A British paraglider has been airlifted to hospital after suffering a serious accident in southern Spain.
The man said to be around 40, plummeted to the ground soon after take-off and fell onto rocks.
Colleagues phoned the emergency services who mobilised police, paramedics and firefighters.
An air ambulance was called to pick him up at the crash site before being dispatched instead to a nearby helipad to take him to hospital.
The victim was stretched away from the scene as a precaution against possible spinal injuries, and is said to have suffered multiple injuries to his back and arms.
He was taken to Reina Sofia Hospital in the city of Cordoba, but his current condition remains unclear.
Rescue services came to the aid of the man (Picture: SolarPix)
The incident happened just before 3pm yesterday seconds after the unnamed Brit took off from the summit of the Sierra de Aras Mountain, near Lucena in southern Spain.
The 2,750-high lookout spot is home to a baroque church called the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Araceli.
The Brit holidaymaker is understood to have formed part of a group organised by a German firm specialising in paragliding trips for beginners and occasional pilots.
Footage taken at the scene showed him being stretched away with a neck brace on attached to a drip, surrounded by local police, Civil Guard and medical experts.
They used a rope to haul him up the steep hill below the mountain summit where he crashed to the ground, when footage showed he was conscious and responding to orders from the emergency workers surrounding him.
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The Sierra de Aras is one of the main paleontological sites in the province of Cordoba.
Popular visitor activities include paragliding, hand gliding and potholing as well as mountain biking.
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