Neil Gregor cheated death in the drop but was unable to move with a broken wrist, vertebrae and ribs after losing his footing coming down Beinn Eighe.
A uni professor's life was saved in a terrifying mountain plunge - when he became a human bouncing ball. Neil Gregor, 54, amazingly cheated death after 100-foot fall in the Highlands.
"I bounced four or five times - a couple of times on my head" he told the Hampshire Chronicle. "I'm very, very lucky. It could have ended very, very differently." Top news stories today The Torridon Mountain Rescue team sent a helicopter out, but conditions were less than ideal. "They got to us at about 10pm. We had been there for about five hours already - they then spent a couple of hours preparing me to be air-lifted out on this stretcher thing.After he had been airlifted to safety, he spent three days in hospital and a few more convalescing at a friend's house in Scotland before travelling home. He is overwhelmed with gratitude to the Torridon Mountain Rescue team, who worked until past midnight to lift him out of danger.
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