The constable said: "Members from the Climbing Club of Tasmania vertical rescue team conducted a complicated vertical rescue of the two climbers.
Constable Callum said: "Initial attempts to rescue the climbers by helicopter with deployment of a vertical rescue team was aborted due to high winds.".
The pair of rock climbers had scrambled up a tall, slender pillar called the "Totem Pole", which rises from the sea at Cap Huay on the Australian island of Tasmania.
Senior Constable Callum Herbert, from Police Search and Rescue, said: "The climbers reported that due to high winds their ropes had become entangled and they were unable to reach safety.".
Police say the eventual rescue operation involved the Climbing Club of Tasmania's vertical rescue team as well as the ambulance service.
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