A helicopter has retrieved an injured paraglider from Treble Cone.
Efforts to retrieve the paraglider are understood to have taken more than an hour.
A St John spokeswoman said they were called to the incident at the ski field at 12.06pm, dispatching a helicopter and an ambulance to the scene.
The paraglider was airlifted to Dunedin Hospital in a moderate condition, she said.
A police spokeswoman said they responded to an incident involving a paraglider, the circumstances of which were unclear.