Meng was using a hand-held 360-degree camera to record his hike through the Fanzengjian mountains in Anhui, about 280 miles west of Shanghai, when he slipped and fell on the rain-slicked rocks. “That’s when it hit me – I must be falling off a cliff,” Meng recounted of the moment he started to slide uncontrollably downward.

A hiker not only survived falling down a mountain in China, he accidentally recorded his brush with death. Yang Meng, 42, was using a 360-degree camera to document his climb. All seems okay, until Meng's feet suddenly slip out from under him.

ANHUI, China (CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Viral video captured a hiker's dramatic slip, fall down a mountain. Dramatic video recently went viral on social media and shows a man slipping and falling down a steep mountain during a hike Monday in China's eastern Anhui province.

The 42-year-old man, named Yang Meng, was hiking in the Fanzengjian mountains when he slipped and fell, capturing the moment on a 360-degree camera. The close-up view shows him skidding down a rain-slicked slope before a tree stops his fall.

Video captures hiker's terrifying tumble down a mountain