Photographer who quit his accounting job to travel around the world lucky to be alive after plummeting 200 feet down cliff when trail crumbled beneath him during hike in Portugal

Photographer Kyle Quin Schrock, 36, is recovering in hospital after falling about 200 feet while hiking in Madeira, Portugal, on 11 October. He said the trail crumbled beneath him, but a small bush caught his fall; a helicopter crew spotted him and rescuers took him to hospital.

Schrock says his back, ribs and sternum are broken and that he is in severe pain. His family says he will need travel assistance, rehabilitation and further medical care in the United States, and will be unable to work for months. An online fundraiser had received nearly $12,900 by Sunday evening; Schrock had left accounting to travel and build a photography career, gaining 1.3 million Instagram followers.