Man survives 90 foot fall into Arizona canyon and walks away without a scratch
Nick Smith was climbing up a canyon in Soap Creek, Arizona, on Feb. 6 when the unexpected happened.
In the midst of teaching a friend how to properly rappel, Smith forgot to secure his own harness and fell 90 feet into the canyon, Fox 13 reports.
“In part, I was a little distracted from trying to explain to this younger fellow, okay this is what you do, ironically, I kind of forgot to check what I was doing for myself,” he said in an interview. “It’s something I’ve done a million times before and your confidence gets to a point where you think you’ve got it,”
The A GoPro camera attached to Smith’s backpack captured the entire moment. He bounces along several ledges until finally landing on the watery ground below.
The canyoneer is now counting his blessings after walking away relatively unharmed. Despite the shock, Smith somehow he was able to eventually get up, hike out of the canyon and drive to the hospital.
“After a visit to the ER. I was cleared by a full CT scan. No broken bones, no internal bleeding. Somehow I don’t even have a scratch on my body from the ordeal,” Smith wrote in the video’s description.
“I just feel so grateful and so blessed,” he said in an interview. “I shouldn’t have survived.”
