Even worse, Hsieh slipped and, in his words, "fell off the path, bike and all, and onto a large boulder by the side of the cliff. My front wheel got caught in a crack in the boulder, but the back wheel and my two legs were hanging out over the edge." It was a 200-meter drop down into the ravine.
更慘的是，不小心一個打滑，他「連人帶車撞上臨崖邊緣半個人高的岩塊上，前輪死死卡在岩縫上，而後輪和雙腿完全懸盪在斷崖之外，」底下就是 200 公尺的深谷；狼狽爬出的他，想站穩身子，雙腿竟顫抖不已。