HelmetCam captures 30m horror fall of climber in the Blue Mountains Daniel Bush falls 30m while climbing in the Blue Mountains, shattering both his ankles. TERRIFYING footage has emerged of a Sydney man falling 30m down a cliff face during a rock climbing accident in the Blue Mountains. Daniel Bush, 27, was on the final pitch of a 30m climb known as Sweet Dreams near Leura in April when disaster struck. The footage, posted on YouTube on Tuesday, shows him slip and begin to violently tumble before coming to a violent stop. "I looked at my foot and realised I'm in pretty serious trouble," Mr Bush says in the voiceover. My right foot was bent beyond recognition and my left foot, from where I was looking, it was basically snapped off. His cries can be heard echoing out across the valley in the moments after the fall. Daniel Bush' begins to slip down the side of the cliff face and his screams can be heard ringing out across the valley before he comes to a violent half. Supplied. "I thought I was dead, so when I stopped I was pleased to be alive," the Schofields man said. I was in a very, very difficult situation. I was stuck in the side of cliff for about four hours before emergency services could actually get to me. Mr Bush was able to eventually activate his emergency beacon and use his mobile phone to guide police to his exact location. But his ordeal was far from over. Rescuers abseiled down to him and were able to lower him to the bottom of cliff face, passing through the canopy in the process. Each time we passed a branch it hit my foot and I was in agony. Five hours after the accident occurred he was able to be flown to Westmead Hospital where both ankles were operated on that night. He spent the next eight weeks in hospital recovering. Seven months after the fall he said he still had not spoken with his climbing partner, Sean, who he met online and had only climbed with a handful of times before. As Daniel was airlifted to safety his broken feet kept catching on branches - and even now there is a chance he could lose his left foot through infection. "Once the rescuers arrived he took off in my car and dropped it off in Blacktown," he said. Mr Bush said he still didn't know how he was able to fall so far. He was attached to a rope and his partner was belaying him from above, meaning he should not have been able to drop more than a metre at any one time. The rescuers said it was the weirdest set-up they had ever seen. Mr Bush said his left foot became infected after the fall and there was still a chance he could lose it. Before the accident he ran a blinds and shuttering business, but he has had to wind the company up and was now broke. He has set up an iPledg page to in hope of soliciting donations to help pay for his mounting medical bills. To donate visit http://ipledg.com/l/bankrupt