A Czech tourist fell 100ft to his death while posing for a picture at the same waterfall where actor Paul Nicholls was stranded.<br /><br />Jiri Barta, 32, travelled to the beauty spot with a group of eight other holidaymakers, including one Briton. The man shuffled to the edge of a cliff next to the Khun Sri waterfall while a friend took a photograph. But Jiri lost his footing and plunged to his death in front of his horrified pals at around noon.<br /><br />Friends clambered down and desperately battled to resuscitate him - while his heart was still breathing for 15 minutes - without success. Rescue workers arrived a short time later and he was pronounced dead at the scene before being taken to hospital for a post mortem examination. <br /><br />Devastated friend Miss Romana Uassara, 30, said the group had arrived in Thailand on February 5 and they had rented five motorcycles to travel around the island.<br /><br />She said: ''We were just admiring the beauty of the waterfall and he walked over to the edge for a picture. The edge is so steep and he fell onto his back. It took a long time for his body to hit the bottom. I don't know why. We went down and he was still alive. We tried to do CPR and asked for help from villagers in the neighbourhood.''<br /><br />Boonchai Wannawatchanasuntorn of Koh Samui's tourist police, said rescuers spent five hours negotiating the deadly terrain to retrieve the body.<br /><br />He said: ''There is a sign in both Thai and English barring people from entering, but tourists keep ignoring it.''
