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.

The camera then flips around showing the terrified hiker skidding down the rain-soaked slope at great speed. Then, seconds later, you see Meng fly into a tangle of brush as he collides with a tree. Amazingly,