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.

I realized I couldn’t get up at all and was sliding faster and faster,” Yang Meng, 42, told CNN while recounting the near-death experience. Meng was using a hand-held 360-degree camera to record his hike through the Fanzengjian mountains in Anhui,

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,