WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO - VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED
An American rock climber and BASE jumper has had a brush with death, capturing the grisly aftermath of his injury on YouTube.
43-year-old Ammon McNeely plummeted to the ground after his parachute failed to deploy properly while BASE jumping near Moab, Utah.
As he fell, he hit the rock face several times before finally coming to a rest on a sandstone cliff above Kane Creek Boulevard on the outskirts of town.
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The very graphic video shows the extreme sports athelete inspecting his snapped ankle, which dangles from a compound fracture and is fastened with a self-applied tourniquet.
"Well, that didn't go good," he tells the camera.
"I knew I was banged up, but to my utter surprise my foot was flipped on its side looking very similar to a Nalgene bottle with just a sliver of skin keeping it on," McNeely later wrote in a Facebook post.
It took local authorities 45 minutes to reach McNeely's location and hoist him down from the cliff ledge, where he was then evacuated to hospital by helicopter.
The BASE jumper remains surprisingly calm throughout the video, casually panning back and forth between his face and his injured ankle.
Although he repeatedly states in the video that he believes he will lose his leg, surgeons were able to save the limb but he still faces a severe risk of infection.
