An avid rock climber in Montana who broke multiple bones after he was struck by a hulking boulder and plunged off a cliffside attributed his miraculous survival to a simple piece of safety equipment often disregarded by advanced adrenaline-seekers: a helmet.

Cody Boehm was scaling a climbing rock at Confluence Crag near Montana’s Custer Gallatin National Forest last Sunday when a microwave-sized boulder was accidentally knocked loose by a friend and barreled into him. 3

Boehm plummeted a steep 50 feet down to the ground, breaking his collarbone and seven of his 24 ribs on top of sustaining a collapsed lung. He was also left badly bloodied with a large laceration down his back where the rock sliced him after smacking him in the head.

The boulder would’ve easily caved his skull in,

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