A hiker is is lucky to be alive after he skidded down the side of a steep mountain in China, following heavy storms that pummeled the area. And the near-death experience was all captured on his 360-degree camera.

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.