I survived a 100-foot fall from mountain after maniac mule attack
He’s a legend of the fall.
A United Kingdom adventurer miraculously survived a 100-foot fall after an angry mule bucked him off a mountain in the Himalayas. He recounted the wild incident in an Instagram video, which has since been taken down.
“I didn’t realize how high we were until I was all the way down,” Syed Bukhari, 22, told NeedToKnow.online of the freak accident, which occurred while the mountaineer was hiking around Haramosh, Pakistan, for three days.
All was going swell until the second day when the London native was attacked by a mule. While the local draft animals are generally friendly, this particular angry animal charged Bukhari, sending him flying off the mountaintop.
The alpinist described the traumatic moment: “The fall down happened all so quick that I just remember the animal hitting me and me falling off the edge seeing my friend’s reaction,” recalled the man, who reportedly lost his camera equipment and other gear during the fall.
Following his epic plunge, some local Samaritans reportedly rushed to the scene with ropes to rescue the prone Bukhari.
“There were some locals that were godsend who then later on tied ropes around me and helped me get back up,” the victim described in the video while retracing the accident. He added that they then MacGyver-ed a “stretcher out of wood on the spot” and carried him for six hours back to base camp where vehicles could access them.
From there, Bukhari was transported to a nearby hospital where it was revealed that he suffered three separate head wounds that required a total of “eight stitches.”
In addition, the climber said he’s been left with “back pain, scars on my face, legs and back, pretty much all over my body.”
Needless to say, Instagram viewers were amazed that Bukhari managed to survive the ordeal.
“Glad to know you’re alive,” said one awestruck fan, while another wrote, “S–t, get well soon bro.”
One Instagram supporter shouted out Bukhari’s local rescuers, writing: “Bless the people that helped you! Amazing u got out of that alive!”
In a similarly incredible survival story in October, a 4-year-old boy fell 70 feet into a gorge in Kentucky and lived to tell the tale.
