{"id":242015,"date":"2025-11-03T20:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242015\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T20:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:48:08","slug":"77-year-old-french-cyclist-survives-ravine-fall-for-three-days-partly-by-drinking-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242015\/","title":{"rendered":"77-year-old French cyclist survives ravine fall for three days partly by drinking wine"},"content":{"rendered":"

A French cyclist who plunged down a 40-metre deep ravine after a crash survived for three days, partly by drinking wine.<\/p>\n

The 77-year-old, who was on the way home from a shopping trip, escaped with only minor injuries and mild hypothermia after the accident last week.<\/p>\n

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As reported by Entrevue<\/a>, the unnamed pensioner was on his way home to Saint-Julien-des-Points in the Loz\u00e8re department from La Grand-Combe in Gard with his shopping when the incident happened. The journey, which should be 14km along the N106, ended abruptly when he missed a turn and fell into the ravine in the Cervennes, north of Montpelier.<\/p>\n

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Trapped at the bottom of the ravine, he tried to attract the attention of passers-by and drivers on the road above by shouting, but there was no rescue. The Frenchman’s supplies were the shopping he had with him, which included a few bottles of wine, which somehow were unbroken in the fall. These few provisions managed to sustain him for three days, with the wine rationed.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, road workers heard his calls on the third day, and after they discovered the bike, they found the 77-year-old in the ravine, still concisous. Firefighters and a helicopter were scrambled, and he was taken to hospital in Al\u00e8s, further down the road.<\/p>\n

“He’s a miracle,” Dr Laurent Savath, chief medical officer of the H\u00e9rault fire department, said, according to French reports. “In the cold and damp, with almost no food or water, he’s incredibly resilient.”<\/p>\n

“He is really tough,” he added. “He fell into a stream several times trying to scramble back up, so was at risk of hypothermia.”<\/p>\n

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Now discharged from hospital, the 77-year-old must feel very fortunate to have had any supplies with him at all, many would be a lot less resourceful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A French cyclist who plunged down a 40-metre deep ravine after a crash survived for three days, partly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-242015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}