DETAILS of a dramatic rescue of a teenager who fell 10 metres down a cliff at the Tamworth lookout can be revealed now as the boy recovers from his serious injuries.

Tamworth father Michael Ceresko says 15-year-old son Sam is out of Tamworth hospital and has just returned to school on crutches after breaking his leg on the afternoon of October 10.

But this was no ordinary rescue, thanks to the steep and rocky terrain on the side of the lookout roadway.

What unfolded in the hour after that phone call to his dad was a specialist rescue operation involving paramedics, rescue officers, firefighters and police.

The teenager was riding his mountain bike with a friend that afternoon when he slipped on the wall, fell and grabbed a nearby tree branch.

"He actually grabbed a tree branch and the

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