The article considers the fatal consequences of a fall from a height. The author is based on literary sources and compares the information discusses the problem of survival. There is no fixed height that we could define as a mortal height from which a falling person would not survive. There are too many variables that will dominate the mortality factor. The main parameters that determine whether a person survives when falling from a height are - age, height, fall point, head and spinal cord injury, and mortality related trauma scores. The main causes of death were subarachnoid haemorrhage and subdural hematoma.