American tourist survives headfirst fall in Switzerland
Logan Moore, 25, said he didn’t know if he would survive after falling 50ft headfirst off a cliff in Switzerland last week. He was filming a panoramic video on a mountain climb when he slipped on slippery moss during the dizzying fall.
Slippery moss on the edge of a Swiss cliff nearly killed an American tourist while trying to take a panoramic photo.
Logan Moore, 25, was hiking to the top of a mountain in Interlaken, Switzerland last week when he made the wrong move while trying to capture the breathtaking view with his cell phone.
Two weeks ago, the Arizona native hopped on a one-way plane with his cousin for the backpacking trip of a lifetime.
“I took a video right before I fell,” he said. Fox 10 Phoenix.
He fell 25 feet, hit his head on a rock and lost consciousness.
A clip from a video taken just seconds before Logan Moore fell 50 feet off a cliff in Switzerland. (Fox News)
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“The platform on my back and the momentum of it all sent me falling into the chasm and I fell head-first into another 25 feet of the chasm and got stuck at the bottom,” Moore said.
Moore said when he regained consciousness at the bottom of the crevasse, he wasn’t sure he would make it out alive.
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Pictured here is rescuers pulling Moore out of the crevasse after he fell. (Fox 10 Phoenix)
“I accepted the situation and said my goodbyes. At the time I didn’t know if I would be able to escape. Then I heard the voices of my cousins and friends and I knew they weren’t going anywhere until I was released,” he recalls.
Within 20 minutes, Swiss mountain rescue teams were overhead by helicopter and began abseiling to find Moore and descend to the spot where he had fallen.
“Then he put the harness over my legs and over my left shoulder, and they lifted me up about 10 feet and then I had to cross it a little bit because it was so skinny and the gap was so small,” Moore said.
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Moore’s recovery could take three to six months. (Fox 10 Phoenix)
Moore was taken by helicopter to a nearby hospital where he was treated for a shattered right shoulder, a fractured left scapula, two fractured vertebrae and multiple bruises and lacerations, according to a GoFundMe set up by his family to raise money for medical expenses.
Moore has now returned to his hometown of Arizona to recover at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center.
Moore suffered a shattered right shoulder, a fractured left scapula, two fractured vertebrae and multiple bruises and lacerations. (Fox 10 Phoenix)
His mother, who flew from overseas to be with her son after the accident, told Fox 10 Phoenix that he was “probably the luckiest kid on earth.”
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“I’m so grateful to the rescue team,” she said.
Moore told the outlet that his recovery could take three to six months and cited non-refundable tickets for the upcoming Olympics as motivation for him to get better.
