The 77-year-old Frenchman was on his way home with his shopping when he took a disastrous wrong turn and ended up spending a few freezing nights alone with only wine for company View 3 Images The man was described as being really tough [stock]

An elderly cyclist has told how he plunged 40 metres down a ravine and survived for three days — by drinking wine. The unnamed pensioner, 77, was on his way home from a routine shop when disaster struck. ‌

Travelling from La Grand-Combe in Gard to his home in Saint-Julien-des-Points, Lozere, he somehow missed a turn and and went hurtling into the steep ravine in the Cevennes, north of Montpellier. ‌

But the tough old-timer refused to give up, even when trapped at the bottom of the gorge with only his bags of shopping for company. A

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