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Tourist Plunges Off 130-Foot Cliff After Trying to Take Selfie

HELL OF A PICTURE

A sickening thud can be heard in footage that captured the nightmarish scene, but the man miraculously survived.

Gaodeng ancient temple, the highest peak of Huaying Mountain.
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The dramatic moment a tourist plunged 50 feet down a cliff after trying to take a selfie has been caught on camera. The incident on Huaying Mountain in Guang’an, China, saw the man teetering on the edge of the narrow path, phone raised as he tried to take a photograph on Sunday. TMZ reports the man miraculously survived the fall off the 130-foot cliff, with local outlets reporting he only fell 50 feet down. A clunk can be heard in the footage as the man loses his balance, before disappearing from view as the rest of his group react, peering over the edge. Astonishingly, he reportedly posted a message on the social media platform WeChat after the incident, saying, “The mountain Gods blessed me. I’m so lucky. I fell from a 40m high cliff and rolled down the slope for nearly 15 meters. When the rocks collapsed, I thought I was going to die. It’s so good to be alive. So I’ll live well!”

Read it at TMZ