Glasgow:
A climber who fell 1,000 feet down a mountain and survived was found by his rescuers standing up reading a map.
Adam Potter, 35, lost his footing while climbing a mountain in Scotland and plummeted down the near-vertical eastern slope.
Potter said he initially failed to see how much danger he was in because he was free falling between cliffs so fast he couldn't see what was coming next.
"I think the last cliff, I'd lost a lot of my speed before I got to it, and I was actually in a position where I could see what was coming and that's what filled me with a bit of dread, on that moment there, cause I could see what I was about to go over and I thought that might be it," he told UK broadcaster Sky News.
Rescuers in a Royal Navy helicopter on a training exercise found Potter standing up reading a map when they arrived on the scene.
"I'm very lucky that I didn't injure myself more than what I have. I'm extremely lucky that the mountain rescue helicopter, well it was actually the Navy, happened to be in the area on a training exercise anyway, so they got to us really quickly also," Potter said.
The climber is now recovering in hospital in Glasgow.
Adam Potter, 35, lost his footing while climbing a mountain in Scotland and plummeted down the near-vertical eastern slope.
Potter said he initially failed to see how much danger he was in because he was free falling between cliffs so fast he couldn't see what was coming next.
"I think the last cliff, I'd lost a lot of my speed before I got to it, and I was actually in a position where I could see what was coming and that's what filled me with a bit of dread, on that moment there, cause I could see what I was about to go over and I thought that might be it," he told UK broadcaster Sky News.
Rescuers in a Royal Navy helicopter on a training exercise found Potter standing up reading a map when they arrived on the scene.
"I'm very lucky that I didn't injure myself more than what I have. I'm extremely lucky that the mountain rescue helicopter, well it was actually the Navy, happened to be in the area on a training exercise anyway, so they got to us really quickly also," Potter said.
The climber is now recovering in hospital in Glasgow.
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