London, February 01: A man in the UK has survived miraculously after falling off 1,000 feet from the top of a Scottish mountain — he even walked away after the accident, a media report said.
Adam Potter, a 35-year-old climber, lost his footing after reaching the summit of 3,589-feet Scottish peak Sgurr Choinnich Mor, around eight kilometres east of Ben Nevis, and fell down the steep and craggy eastern slope of the mountain at around lunchtime on Saturday.
Subsequently, a helicopter rescue mission found he was standing up and reading a map, The Sun reported.
Potter said from hospital: “We got to an area where it is a bit more slippy and a bit icier, so I said ‘let’s get our crampons on and get the axes out behind that rock’, which was about five metres away.
“As I walked towards the rock I slipped, and that’s when the fall began to happen. The speed accumulated really fast. I was trying to slow myself down but every time I slowed myself down I would then go over a cliff edge, so I would get all my speed back, and then I would land on a slopier bit again and try to lose some more speed and then I would go over another cliff and so it went on.
“Towards the end I had almost lost all of my speed, then I actually saw what I was about to go over, which was one more cliff, and I actually thought that would be it. I thought that might have been the end on that one,” he said.
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