Man survives 400ft cliff fall

A tourist who fell almost 400 feet down the side of a cliff on a remote Scottish island lay seriously injured for up to 15 hours before being discovered.

Lewis Moncrieff Routledge, 35, was found on Monday night at the bottom of the steep drop on the eastern shoreline of the Isle of Canna, off the west coast of Scotland.

He went missing in thick fog and is believed to have plunged over the cliff at a point where visibility was just 200 yards.

After being reported missing by a tour operator he was discovered by coastguards and airlifted to Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, where he is being treated for multiple fractures, head injuries and hypothermia. "He is very lucky to be alive," a coastguard spokesman said.