DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Now an incredible story of survival. It is about a troubled teenager and his decision to runaway from a Kentucky group home. It turned into a life-threatening and life- changing ordeal. The turning point, a terrifying fall off of a cliff alongside the Cumberland River. Reporter Tim Weldon (ph) of our affiliate WLEX in Lexington has the story.</s>TIM WELDON, WLEX REPORTER (voice-over): Seventeen-year-old Harold Chandler had run away from a group home in Somerset (ph). He was jogging through some woods, when he took a wrong step, and fell off a cliff along Lake Cumberland. It was a 100 foot fall to near certain death.</s>HAROLD CHANDLER, JR., FALL SURVIVOR: I didn't think I was going to live. And I was talking to God and I was saying: If you help me make me past this, then I wouldn't ever run again.</s>WELDON: For four days, Harold lay at the bottom of the cliff. He one broken leg, two broken arms, and a fractured hip. He broke every rib in his body, and both lungs had collapsed, Somehow he was able to call for help when he saw some men fishing in a boat.</s>CHANDLER: I felt very proud of myself because I was strong enough to make it through it. All that pain and stuff, not eating for four days and surviving off the lake water.</s>WELDON: Harold admits he's gotten in a lot of trouble growing up, and both he and his mother are looking at this as a second chance, and both hope he'll make the most of a fresh start that all odds say he should never have gotten.</s>KAGAN: Tough way to learn your lesson. That story from reporter Tim Weldon, from our affiliate WLEX. Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNmoney.com The Web
Troubled Kentucky Teen Survives Life-Threatening and Life- Changing Ordeal