A walker messaged his family "to say goodbye" after slipping down a steep gorge and into freezing water at a Scots beauty spot.
Dan Crank, a farmer from the Preston area of England, admits he "would have died" if it wasn't for emergency services and mountain rescue volunteers saving him at the Devil's Pulpit on Wednesday, December 14.
Dan stopped to take a picture when he slipped and fell into the icy Finnich Glenwater amid plummeting temperatures. The 25-year-old believes he suffered hypothermia and told the Record how the cold was so "unbearable" he feared he wouldn't survive the ordeal.The experienced walker said: "It was absolute agony at first and then I started going numb.
I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I text my family saying my goodbyes as I thought I was gone. I did not think anyone would get to me in time."He added: "The cold was unbearable, I could barely walk, I was bouncing around I was shivering that much.
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