Two teenagers were winched to safety after becoming trapped on a precarious cliff ledge with the sea crashing just feet below.
The pair were at risk of being swept off the sheer cliff face after they became stranded by the strong waves when they were cut off by the tide while out searching for fossils.
* Click here to sign up to free news and sport email alerts from your YEP.Daring coastguards and a lifeboat crew rushed to the scene after the pair, believed to be 15 and 16-years-old, called 999 from a mobile phone.
* Click here to follow the YEP on Twitter.The frightened boys had scrambled on to the ledge 100ft down a cliff with no chance of escape and were stuck there for more than an hour before they called for help.
* Click here to become a fan of the YEP on Facebook.The lads were spotted by a lifeboat crew on a ledge four metres up the cliff at Saltwick Bay, Whitby.
Coastguard Steven Bunt bravely went down the cliff on a rope to secure the two and put lifejackets on them before they were winched into an RAF Sea King helicopter.
* Click here to watch latest YEP news and sport video reports.The inshore lifeboat struggled to get in as a two-metre ground swell was breaking at the base of the cliff, so the crew was asked to remain on scene but it was not safe to evacuate the two boys by boat.
* Click here for latest YEP news and sport picture slideshows.Whitby coxswain and mechanic, Mike Russell and Glen Goodberry, said it was too shallow to put the anchor down and too risky to leave the stricken boys to become even colder, possibly suffering from hypothermia so a cliff rescue team and the RAF were sent.
The lucky two were rescued by the helicopter shortly after and taken to
Scarborough District Hospital for a check-up.
Colin Massy, a pilot from RAF Boulmer said: "The boys were cold, wet and a bit shaken up but not hypothermic. They were very fortunate as the situation was very precarious."
Humber Coastguard said as the two are young adults they did not need to speak to their parents but gave them words of advice.
It warned people to check the tides before setting off and to phone the
coastguard and check for low water tides, to keep an eye on the tide and keep watch behind you.
