Conundrum: who can see the rope?

Imagine a situation where a person is trapped deep into a well. For the trapped person, the area of visibility is through the opening of the well's small circle through which one can see the a narrow piece of blue sky. In that situation, the only thing that person can think of to escape is to climb up. That person would put his all his effort to climb up to get freed. There may be other options lying out there just next to the well which are beyond that person's grasp to understand or capture. There could very be a rope placed next to the well that has length to reach the trapped person. But for the trapped person, that won't give any peace or tranquility just because he or she isn't able to see that rope standing deep inside the well. But for the person who may be standing next to the well has the visibility to all the options that are possibly available including that rope. So he can just throw the rope from outside and get the person out of the well.

Now when you reverse the situation, the same person who was seeing all the options from outside, would be stuck with very limited visibility, if trapped deep in to the same well.