A Leicestershire man who broke his neck and back in a 100ft fall down a mountain says he feels lucky to be alive.
Peter Flint, 60, from Branston, near Melton, needed an emergency 14-hour operation after being airlifted off the mountain in the Lake District last November.
He amazed doctors and his family by being to walk a few days after the accident, which had left him in a critical condition.
"Considering the state I was in following the accident, I guess I am lucky to be alive," Peter told the BBC One show Countryside 999.
Mr Flint was walking with his daughter, Rosie, when he slipped and fell from the 3,117ft-high Swirral Edge, on Helvellyn. He broke his neck, his back in three places, and several ribs in the fall.
After a daring rescue by an Royal Navy search-and-rescue team, he was flown to the Royal Victoria Infirmary, in Newcastle.
Mr Flint, chairman of the Branston cricket team, was interviewed for the show in hospital. He said he hoped the doctors would this week give him the go-ahead to remove a brace from his neck and a corset from his body.
"I still need to wear this corset to protect my back, but hopefully the specialist will be able to say I wont have to," he said.
"That will give me a little bit more freedom of movement."
The programme, screened on Friday, used footage shot by a BBC Scotland cameraman who was aboard the Royal Navy's search-and-rescue Sea King helicopter during the incident on November 10.
Members of the Patterdale and Penrith mountain rescue teams got to Mr Flint and had to lower him part-way down the mountain by ropes.
Low fog prevented the helicopter from landing near to where Mr Flint had fallen.
The rescue teams lowered the injured man to a position where the helicopter could winch him aboard.
Mr Flint's daughter, Rosie, told the programme: "He can walk again. He's got no serious permanent head injuries. It's absolutely amazing.
"He had a few broken bones and that from a 100ft fall."
Rosie knew it was serious when she saw her father slip and fall, and spoke of her anguish as she waited for the helicopter to arrive.
"It felt like it went on forever because I felt, he's up there, my dad's still cold," she said. "He needed to be in hospital. That was the best place for him."
