{"id":3631,"date":"2025-11-06T14:07:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/cyclist-kept-alive-by-red-wine-following-ravine-fall\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:07:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:07:24","slug":"cyclist-kept-alive-by-red-wine-following-ravine-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/06\/cyclist-kept-alive-by-red-wine-following-ravine-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist kept alive by red wine following ravine fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-11-06 14:07:23<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A man has been hailed a miracle survivor after spending three days trapped at the bottom of a ravine in southern France \u2014 kept alive by little more than his shopping bag and bottles of red wine.<BR><br \/>\nThe 77-year-old pensioner &#8211; who has not been identified &#8211; had set off to do his grocery shopping in La Grand-Combe, in the Gard region, and was cycling home to Saint-Julien-des-Points when he missed a bend on the RN106 road, plunging 40 metres down a steep embankment into the bed of the Gardon River.<BR><br \/>\nHis bicycle was left mangled in the fall, and the man \u2014 unable to climb out of the ravine \u2014 spent three nights calling desperately for help whenever he heard passing cars above. No one heard him.<BR><br \/>\nExposed to the cold and damp, he survived by rationing the contents of his shopping bag \u2014 food and several bottles of wine that miraculously stayed intact during the fall.<BR><br \/>\nRescuers finally found him on Tuesday afternoon when road workers from the regional highways department heard faint cries for help and spotted the wrecked bicycle below. <BR><br \/>\nEmergency services were immediately called, and firefighters from Sdis 34, assisted by a civil security helicopter, airlifted the exhausted man to Al\u00e8s Hospital for treatment.<BR><br \/>\n Dr. Laurent Savath, chief medical officer of the H\u00e9rault fire brigade, said: &#8220;He\u2019s a miracle.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;In the cold and damp, with almost nothing to eat or drink, he proved remarkably resilient.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nDespite falling into the water several times while attempting to climb out, the cyclist escaped with only minor injuries and mild hypothermia.<BR><br \/>\nAfter three days alone in the wilderness, suspended between luck and determination, his survival was described by rescuers as nothing short of extraordinary.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-11-06 14:07:23 A man has been hailed a miracle survivor after spending three days trapped at the bottom of a ravine in southern France \u2014 kept alive by little more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3632,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions\/3632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}