An 81-year-old grandmother has vowed to carry on skydiving after cheating death when her parachute failed to open.
Daredevil Dilys Price - the world's oldest woman skydiver - nearly died when her parachute became twisted.
She was plummeting to earth when her reserve chute opened just 1,000ft up, saving her life.
Daredevil: Dilys Price nearly died when her parachute became twisted
Fearless: She has vowed to carry on skydiving despite cheating death
Won't be put off: Dilys has said the experience has made her more fearless than ever
Dilys, from Cardiff, said the experience has made her more fearless than ever.
She said: 'It felt terrifying at the time but it has boosted my confidence hugely - it felt like I was cheating death.
'My parachute opened but with lots of twists so I couldn't kick out of it. I went to pull the reserve cord, but because of the twists I couldn't pull it.
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'Eventually, with an almighty pull, my rescue parachute came out.
'It was pretty close but it hasn't put me off - I suppose I'm an adventure junkie.'
Mother-of-one Dilys took up skydiving at the age of 54 when she did a parachute jump for charity.
Dilys has travelled around the world sky diving, carrying out jumps in America and the Wadi Rum desert in Jordan
Grandmother: Dilys took up skydiving at the age of 54 when she did a parachute jump for charity
Dilys said her death-defying experience 'felt terrifying at the time but it has boosted my confidence hugely'
She has completed more than 1,050 jumps and regularly jumps out of planes from 13,000ft up.
Dilys has travelled around the world sky diving, carrying out jumps in America and the Wadi Rum desert in Jordan.
She said: 'I still remember the first time I jumped, I thought "This is instant death".
'But the minute I came down I wanted to go up again - I was hooked.'
Dilys is world's oldest female skydiver according to the Guinness Book of Records.
'Adventure junkie': Dilys has completed more than 1,050 jumps and regularly jumps out of planes from 13,000ft up
On the ground: Dilys is in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest female sky diver
She also has an OBE for her work running a charity called the Touch Trust who provide 'creative movement' programmes for the disabled.
She added: 'My feet are very on the ground but I'm also in the air - my ambitions for the charity are huge but things have to be done properly.
'It's a lot of hard work but sky diving teaches you courage - it's about learning to feel the fear and doing it anyway.'