A snowboarder who took a wrong turn over the edge of a famous glacier in Colorado and plummeted roughly 100 feet was rescued after spending more than three hours stranded on Monday.

The unidentified 27-year-old snowboarder took his ill-fated fall while trying to descend the Skyscraper Glacier, a famous permanent snowfield near Rollins Pass in Colorado, around 2:30 p.m., according to the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office . 4

His 100-foot fall was thankfully halted after he collided with a bergschrund, a small crevasse formed on the glacial ice.

Still, he wasn’t spared and reportedly sustained “serious injuries,” officials said, though they didn’t specify how exactly he was harmed.

The intrepid snowboarder was stuck at the bergschrund until the Colorado Search and Rescue Association

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