A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.

The 77-year-old missed a bend on his bike on his way home from the supermarket on a lonely road in the mountainous Cevennes region, careening down a rocky slope and into the ravine near Saint-Julien-des-Points.

Unable to climb out, the man tried to shout every time a vehicle passed. But no one heard his cries.

As the hours turned into days, he was sustained by the bottles of wine he was taking home to his caravan, rescuers said.

Finally, passing roadworkers heard him yelling and spotted the twisted frame of his bicycle.

A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with rescue doctor Laurent Savath calling his survival "a mir

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