Video shows him on the rocks with three goats below and them him hurtling on to the rocks.
The impact broke his wrist and elbow and also fractured his skull.
A drone operator was in the area and caught the whole incident on camera.
The teen's friend, ****, watched him fall and he tried to use his phone to call for help, but it was locked.
Thinking quickly, he used Siri to call for Nathan's dad, who then alerted rescue services, news.com.au reported.
Nathan drifted in and out of consciousness as rescue services worked for two hours to extract him and get him to hospital.
“I fractured my wrist and my elbow, I think I got a bruise to my lungs and a fractured skull,” Nathan said.
“I feel pretty surprised that I'm still alive.”
The terrain was so tough that even rescue volunteers were injured in the pouring rain
As he tumbled down the cliff he got caught in a gap, which prevented him from falling even further and possibly saved his life.
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