A top music boss survived a 200-foot plunge onto jagged rocks after he lost his footing on a clifftop.
Andy Godfrey, 60, broke his back and breastbone, fractured his skull and cracked all of his ribs on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland.
Godfrey told The Sunday Post: “I was walking along a path on the clifftop with my partner Julie and friends, Peter and Fiona, when I slipped.
“I didn’t think I was near the edge.
“However, the next thing I knew, I was falling and I tried to grab some heather to hold on to but missed it.
“It was like an out-of-body experience. I don’t remember hitting the rocks at the foot of the cliff.”
Godfrey tried to move but couldn’t.
Luckily, the people he was hiking with called emergency services who rushed to the rescue.
Godfrey was treated by a first-aid-trained climber who scaled down the cliff face before being airlifted to hospital.
Dr. Tom Mallison said: “I have never seen anyone fall from that height and survive. It would have killed most people.”
Godfrey, who is vice-president of copyright at BMG UK and lives in London, said he was also lucky not to be paralyzed.
He added: “I was back up on my feet 24 hours later. I feel very lucky.
“The doctors were keen that I started moving as soon as possible.
“They couldn’t believe how lucky I was to survive.
“I certainly feel remarkably lucky.
“Everyone involved in my rescue did a fantastic job – friends, coastguard crew, medics.”
Unbelievably, Godfrey was back at his office just five weeks after his fall.