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Skier accidentally sails off 150-ft cliff in horrifying helmet-cam footage (VIDEO) ‘Dude, how are you still alive?' Skier cheats death after 150ft plunge (VIDEO)
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The moment a skier accidentally swooped off a cliff in Utah and plunged 150 feet (46 meters) onto the snowy ground below has been captured in hair-raising footage. Hair-raising footage of a skier falling 150ft (46 meters) off a cliff in the Utah mountains has gone viral and left the internet wondering how the adventurer walked away unscathed from the perilous plunge.
The horrifying video was taken by a camera fixed to the helmet of 25-year-old-skier Devon Stratton.
Stratton miraculously survived the plunge without a scratch and later posted the clip of his misadventure at Mount Timpanogos, Utah on Instagram. The remarkable video shows Stratton skiing down the mountain below stunning blue skies before unintentionally diving right off the top of a cliff. “Turns out I am afraid of heights...Miraculously I didn't even have a bruise! I did break a lot of gear including my helmet,” Devin Stratton wrote on Instagram.
Stratton can be heard shouting as he falls to the ground in a terrifying drop. In an interview with GrindTV, 25-year-old Stratton said: “I’m more than lucky. It’s a straight-up miracle I’m alive. I think the fact that I was skiing when I went off the cliff and I somehow had enough speed to clear the rocks you see in the video is nothing short of a miracle.”
Just moments later, he turns his face towards the camera to show he’s OK. “When he [my friend] skied over to me after falling down the cliff, he just looked up at it then back at me and asked, ‘Dude, how are you still alive?'”
Amazingly, Stratton escaped injury, despite landing on his back. Undeterred by his near miss Stratton will be back: “As soon as avalanche conditions slow down I’m going to go back and do it again.”
“Turns out I am afraid of heights... Miraculously I didn’t even have a bruise!” he wrote in an Instagram post.
Stratton’s helmet and some of his skiing equipment were not so lucky, however, and were broken in the smash. It took the accidental adventurer some five hours to locate a lost ski and get off the mountain.