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That happened that led to his dramatic fall. >> oh, my god. >> i was really fighting for air, and i knew that it would be better to fall than hang up there and die. >> it all began when traber took his backpack off to answer a call on his cell phone. when he went to put the backpack back on his waist strap was left dangling. >> and it got stuck right in there, jammed pretty tight. and then right when i jumped off, it yanked me back and dragged me around the turnstile. and then it pulled my backpack up above my head and then the chest piece moved into my neck and it was strangling me. >> anthon...

Serious injury? >> i'm very amazed that i survived. >> five years later as a 17-year-old anthony traber recalls that day and everything that happened that led to his dramatic fall. >> oh, my god. >> i was really fighting for air, and i knew that it would be better to fall than hang up there and die. >> it all began when traber took his backpack off to answer a call on his cell phone. when he went to put the backpack back on his waist strap was left dangling. >> and it got stuck right in there, jammed pretty tight. and then right when i jumped off, it yanked me back and dragged me around the tu...

Scene. the boy hangs on for more than a minute. then as the crowd gasps, the boy finally slips and falls the equivalent of three stories on to the hard snow. >> it was just kind of like in slow motion, until he hit. it was a long ways down. >> the ski patrol is standing by. and tends to the boy in a matter of seconds, but is the boy alive? and if so, has he suffered serious injury? >> i'm very amazed that i survived. >> five years later as a 17-year-old anthony traber recalls that day and everything that happened that led to his dramatic fall. >> oh, my god. >> i was really fighting for air, a...

>> five years later as a 17-year-old anthony traber recalls that day and everything that happened that led to his dramatic fall. >> oh, my god. >> i was really fighting for air, and i knew that it would be better to fall than hang up there and die. >> it all began when traber took his backpack off to answer a call on his cell phone. when he went to put the backpack back on his waist strap was left dangling. >> and it got stuck right in there, jammed pretty tight. and then right when i jumped off, it yanked me back and dragged me around the turnstile. and then it pulled my backpack up above my ...

>> five years later as a 17-year-old anthony traber recalls that day and everything that happened that led to his dramatic fall. >> oh, my god. >> i was really fighting for air, and i knew that it would be better to fall than hang up there and die. >> it all began when traber took his backpack off to answer a call on his cell phone. when he went to put the backpack back on his waist strap was left dangling. >> and it got stuck right in there, jammed pretty tight. and then right when i jumped off, it yanked me back and dragged me around the turnstile. and then it pulled my backpack up above my ...