Watch this daring rescue of a wild foal stuck on a cliffside

Dustin Lyle wasn’t paying much attention to the wild horses on the side of the road until he heard his girlfriend Val scream.

“My instincts, I just got out and looked,” he said.

At first, Lyle could only see a mare on the side of the steep hillside above him, until seconds later when he spotted her foal, who was stuck in a web of branches on the edge of sheer drop.

“I finally seen the colt just laying in the sticks and I just jumped out really and just hoofed her right up there because I see nobody else was going.”

In a video posted to the Help Alberta Wildies Society’s (HAWS) Facebook page that now has over 230,000 views, the foal can be seen slipping and falling, coming to rest in a tangle of branches right at the edge of the cliff.

Video is included in the article