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Saved by goats after my fall from the sacred mountain

When Morgan Segui fell from a cliff in the jungle of Timor-Leste he was badly injured and faced certain death. His salvation came from unusual friends he found in the forest.

Three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food; that is the rule that every mountaineer knows by heart. For Morgan Segui, a French acrobat-turned-explorer, he knew it meant his chances of survival were vanishingly small. He lay at the bottom of a dry gorge in the Timorese jungle of South Asia, miles from help, after taking a dramatic fall which broke several bones and left a huge gash to his head. Dazed and without water, he spent three days and nights on the jungle floor trying to cling to life. Until, astonishingly, a herd of goats came to his rescue.

Presenter: Asya Fouks
Producer: Edgar Maddicott

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(Photo: Morgan Segui. Credit: Morgan Segui)

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