Friday, Dec. 6, 2013
BASE jumper Thayer Healey is lucky to be alive after a parachute malfunction left him tumbling down the side of a cliff in Moab, Utah, on Nov. 24. Despite repeatedly smashing into the jagged sandstone cliff face aptly named "Wall Street," before crash-landing beside it, Healey escaped with relatively minor injuries.
In the video's description, Healey wrote that he suffered a compression fracture of his T12 vertebra, five stitches to the eye, six stitches to the chin and a sprained back, wrist and hand. He was released from the hospital after about a day, and took to Facebook to assure friends and family he was alright. "I really lucked out on that one," he wrote.
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