A very lucky man...

A climber escaped with minor injuries after plunging 1,000ft down a rock face on a Scottish mountain range.

The 35-year-old man fell the height of the Eiffel Tower shortly after he reached the summit of the 3,600ft Sgurr Choinnich Mor, five miles east of Ben Nevis.

The man, who is from Glasgow and was part of a group of 24 climbers, lost his footing and fell from the summit just after 2pm yesterday.

HMS Gannet's Sea King helicopter was already airborne on a training mission and arrived within 30 minutes.

When the crew found the man, he was on his feet and reading a map.
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock