Watch the teenager falling from a 30ft waterfall because of a sudden gush of water
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A 17-year-old boy was pushed from a 30ft waterfall by a sudden gush of water at the Crammel Lin waterfall in Gilsland, Northumberland.
Harry Weatherhead, from Corbridge, Northumberland, was visiting the Crammel Lin waterfall with a couple of friends. When he climbed to the top part of the waterfall, a sudden gush of water pushed him from 30ft.
Luckily, the 17-year-old rugby player escaped with just a broken wrist.
When his friend moved him out of the water, he was unable to move. Two mountain rescue teams – The North of Tyne Mountain Rescue Team and Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue Team – arrived to get Harry out of the terrain.
18 team members of the mountain rescue teams took four hours to get Harry out of the terrain. A helicopter also arrived from Prestwick, Scotland to send him to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle for treatment.
Miraculously, he only suffered bruising and a broken wrist.
Harry said: “As I went to jump off the rock, a large wave of water hit the rocks and I slipped as I jumped off. At first, I had so much adrenaline from the fall it felt like I just had a dead leg.”
“I managed to swim out the water with the help of my friends and lie down. I didn’t initially feel any pain. But when I went to stand up, I realised I couldn’t move.”
“The sheer pain kicked in and I knew I needed medical help. I thought I had done something to my pelvis or shattered a hip because the whole right side of my body was messed up.”
He added: “I’m lucky because it could have been a lot worse considering how high I fell.”
“The first day and a half in hospital I was fearing the worst because I couldn’t move at all. I just lay there motionless.”
“As soon as I got the X-ray scans back, I suddenly felt better as I knew there wasn’t any serious damage”, he said.
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