American travel photographer survives 200ft plunge down a Portuguese cliff after a little BUSH catches him
Kyle Quin Schrock, 36, from San Diego, who says 'my back is broken, my ribs are broken, my sternum is broken' after falling 200ft from a cliff path in Madeira on October 11.Kyle Quin Schrock in his hospital intensive-care bed, where he is awaiting spinal surgery and needing fluid drained from his lungs after the fall.
Kyle Quin Schrock, 36, of San Diego, was hiking in Madeira on October 11 when the trail collapsed beneath him, sending him falling around 200 feet. 'I thought it was my death,' he told his 1.3 million Instagram followers from his hospital bed, wearing an oxygen mask. A small bush arrested his fall; he clung there above the drop until a helicopter crew found him. He suffered a broken back, broken ribs and a broken sternum.
Schrock had left his accounting career to travel the world as a photographer.
He remains in intensive care, facing spinal surgery and requiring his lungs to be drained.
His family's GoFundMe page states that he faces months without being able to work.
