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Climber Mark Roberts’ GoPro Camera Captures Terrifying 100-Foot Fall Down Mountain (VIDEO)

By The Huffington Post News Editors

A mountain climber is probably feeling pretty lucky after surviving a terrifying, 100-foot fall down an icy slope. Outfitted with a GoPro camera, he managed to record the entire accident in a short video (above).

Yahoo! News reports that Mark Roberts, 47, suffered a broken ankle and bruising but was not seriously injured during the rough-and-tumble descent down Parsley Fern Lefthand Gully, in the Snowdonia region of Wales, on Feb. 24. The approximately 60-second slide began when Roberts was hit by a chunk of falling ice, visible in the recording of the incident.

Roberts was subsequently rescued by the Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team, which used a helicopter to fly him to safety, according to the Daily Post.

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