This is the most French title I'll read today. Did he have a baguette too? And, a striped shirt, and beret?

Seriously, glad he's okay.

I appreciate the man's priorities: he fell 130 feet and managed to not break the wine bottles.

In 2023, a woman who went missing for five days in the Australian bushland was found alive after surviving for five days on lollipops and wine.

Yet another reminder to keep a stockpile of food and water in your abodes and cars just-in-case. I haven't been stranded out and about yet, but there was a blizzard a few years ago that I was unprepared for and I nearly ran out of food.

He has to be the most French person ever.

Everything about this story is totally believable, the fact that a French person would have wine in a shopping bag and that they would choose to transport it via bicycle along a dusty road by a cliff. The French just do not seem to believe in putting up barriers near the edges of large cliffs, you just have to path and then 1 mm of grass and then a drop to the bottom of the world.

130 foot is almost 40 meters.

I think most people would wine and complain after falling into a ravine like that.

Wine only? But no mention of Baguette and cigarettes? I don't believe it.

It must not have been a Frenchman. A Quebecois maybe. They would fall of a cliff and only have wine.

My ass would've just pounded the bottle and said "this is how I go out" within the first hour.

It sounds more like he thrived for three days.

That's the indomitable human spirit.

“77-year old alcoholic falls off bike after visiting his dealer.” But seriously, ALWAYS add a bottle of wine when shopping for anything, people. #safetyfirst

How did the wine not dehydrate them?

Did he start drinking after falling down or before???

Me after I'm found at the bottom of a cliff 3 days after I got shitfaced on my grocery store wine and rode off it.

I feel like three days isn't enough time to die from the absence of wine, but then again I'm not French.

It's just funny the way the headline is written. I'm assuming they meant more along the lines of "survives 3 days while drinking wine" not "survives 3 days by drinking wine" lol because unless you are starting out extremely dehydrated already, then a 3-day dry fast is absolutely not going to kill you.

If it would have been somewhere else:

Day one:

Day three:

That is the most french news headline I have read in a while

“I BeT tHe cYcliSt rAn tHe ReD LiGHt!”

Perhaps a shorter pump is the answer.

"His attempt to rescue himself using a ladder constructed from Baguettes sadly failed. Thankfully, rescuers were able to locate him after a passerby noticed a thin trail of cigarette smoke rising from the ravine."

Truly glad he got rescued, fuckin' hell I hope it was at least a decent bottle and that there's no lasting injuries.

I knew isotonic is not the best bicyclist's drink to carry around.

Could have lasted a week if he had a baguette and some cheese. Lesson learned.

This is probably also what I would say if I were ever found passed out in a ditch.

77-yo, rolled 130' downhill, survived with what he had on him. I feel like most y'all would simply die.

He fell down a 40m ravine and bottle didn't smash?

This is an ad from Big French Wine

He didn't just survive, he thrived.

Christ, what a walking (cycling) stereotype.

I guess if he got hungry he could have started on the string of garlic he was wearing around his neck.

this is just such a french headline it's incredible :D

When you think about it, the "in France" part was unnecessary.

I need to know what wine he drank, those bottles must be tough as shit.

Cheers!

How quintessentially French.

This is one of the most French stories I've ever heard.

Fuck yeah dude!

Dude got to celebrate that KOM descent with wine. Absolute Chad.

I was ready to be pissed at a young reckless dude that went biking alone in a mountain, turns out it was a 77 yo man on his way home...

Also :

This isn't the first time a person has endured harsh conditions with a bottle of wine. In 2023, a woman who went missing for five days in the Australian bushland was found alive after surviving for five days on lollipops and wine.

I wish I'm that strong and lively when I'm 77.