A British backpacker living the 'Kiwi dream' has been left paralysed from the chest down after falling four metres from the top of a ladder.
Matthew Williamson, 30, has been working as an industrial abseiler - which involves skilled rope technicians operating in hard-to-reach locations - in New Zealand for the past two years.
But disaster struck on November 28 when he severed his spinal cord after he fell from a ladder while on the job, the Daily Mail reports.
Now friends and family are raising money to get their beloved Williamson home to Newport, south Wales - and have already raised more than £10,000 (just over $19,200).
Williamson had been working when he hit his head on a hatch door. The impact knocked him out and he fell from the ladder.