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A nine-year-old boy has told how he fell down England’s third-highest mountain... and walked away unharmed.Marwaan Rajakazee

Marwaan Rajakazee’s dad ­Imtiaz watched in horror as he ­tumbled 160ft down the rocky mountainside “like a rag doll” after slipping on ice on Helvellyn in the Lakes.

Convinced his son was dead, Imtiaz scrambled down to where he lay – but the lad sat up and declared: “I’m alive!”

Rescuers and ­paramedics flown to them by helicopter were ­astonished to find he had suffered nothing more than a bumped head and a bruised leg.

Marwaan said: “I slipped and tumbled down the mountain ­before crashing into rocks.

“All I can remember is people putting me on a stretcher, tying me to something and lifting me up into the helicopter.

“I couldn’t see anything because they put a thing on my neck that kept me in one position. I’ve only got bruises. I wasn’t too scared."

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Imtiaz, 41, who lives with wife Mubina, 39, in Preston, Lancashire, said: “I thought I had lost him. I can’t begin to describe the feeling.

"One minute he was next to me, the next he was gone.

“His body picked up speed. He ­disappeared through rocks and seemed to hit everything as he went.

"One minute he was in the air, the next he hit the ground. He was completely out of ­control. I can’t believe he could survive something so terrifying.

“He was tumbling over jagged stone all the way down.

“When I reached him he was in shock. He said, ‘I’m alive’. The next thing I knew, 12 paramedics and an RAF ­helicopter were there. It was surreal.”

Marwaan was flown to Royal Victoria Infirmary in ­Newcastle but was released the next day with just minor ­bruises.

Imtiaz said: “He’s accident prone. He got hurt on a quad bike, had a drill though his finger and trapped his hand in a door.

"His mum’s not pleased. I like adventure but she thinks I take it too far.”

Seven people have died on 3,117ft Helvellyn in five years.