Tourist stable after Uluru rescue

A Taiwanese tourist winched from Uluru with multiple injuries after spending more than 24 hours trapped in a crevice is recovering in hospital in a stable condition.

The 27-year-old on Friday was flown to Alice Springs hospital with hypothermia, head injuries, fractures to his pelvis and several limbs after he fell into the crevice after getting separated from two female companions and taking an alternative route back to base.

Alice Springs hospital says his condition has since been downgraded from critical to stable.

He was spotted from the air at 6pm on Thursday, by which point it was too dark to pull him out.

Police officers, national park staff and his two companions stayed in contact with him overnight as temperatures dropped to about five degrees Celsius.

A rescue began on Friday morning and the man was winched some 200 metres up the face of Uluru before arriving at a helicopter landing spot around 6pm.

He was then flown to the nearby Yulara Clinic before being taken Alice Springs Hospital.