Glen Keane, an Oscar-winning former Disney animator, has been rescued from the top of an Arizona mountain after he fell ill during a hike.

Phoenix firefighters were called to Mummy Mountain, located in Paradise Valley, at around 8 a.m. Wednesday morning after receiving reports of a hiker, later identified as 72-year-old Keane, facing a medical emergency.

Keane told first responders that after starting a hike with his family at around 6 a.m., he became dizzy and did not think he could make it down from the steep ridge in the extreme heat, according to local outlet AZFamily.

Footage of the rescue shared by the Phoenix Fire Department showed the crew set up a hoist operation to airlift Keane, who was still alert, off the mountain. “Despite the extreme temperatures and unique terrain, the patient was safely extracted from a dangerous position on the mountain,” the PFD wrote in a statement on Facebook.

Keane, a longtime Disney animator, won the 2018 Academy Award for best animated short for Dear Basketball alongside late NBA legend Kobe Bryant. In his 38 years as an animator, he has worked on The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Tarzan and Tangled.

The Arizona native, who currently resides in Paris, said he was hiking with his grandchildren when he started to feel sick.

“My mountain goat grandkids maneuvered just fine, then I got up there, and its like, uh, what the heck did I do,” Keane told AZFamily. “I shouldn’t have done this, but I know I really needed help.”

He continued: “I was being lifted up [in the helicopter], and I was looking at all the areas that I used to climb around as a kid. And I thought, Lord, thank you. This was just a real blessing to have that crew.

“And they were really risking their own lives on the edge of that narrow little ledge. I mean, it was very much just like a razor’s edge up there,” he said.

Mummy Mountain reaches an elevation of 2,260 feet and is located in Paradise Valley between Phoenix and Scottsdale.

Keane, who said he grew up hiking up the mountains in the area, issued a warning to hikers when speaking to AZFamily, saying, “If you’re bringing up your family, make sure you know that you are in safe territory and don’t count on it being the same way you saw it when you were a little kid. Things change.”