A MAN who tried to break out of his own eighth-story apartment is lucky to be alive after landing on a pile of snow.

According to a witness, who caught the attempted escape on camera, the 35-year-old Estonian man was trying to climb out of his high-rise apartment using a makeshift rope from bed sheets he had tied together, the Gawker reports.



"He succeeded climbing one story down, but the sheet didn't withstand the weight at the seventh story," Yekaterina Horoshko said.



A local police spokesman confirmed the incident, saying the man was apparently attempting to flee his apartment after being locked up in the bedroom by his "possessive" wife.



"He said his wife locked him up," Officer Ilmar Kahro said. "Desiring to go meet friends, he decided to get out using a rope he made out of bed sheets."



The man reportedly walked away from the fall after being helped by paramedics.