A B&Q worker from Farnham was killed when he was thrown from a quad bike while on a work trip to Bolivia, an inquest heard on Monday.
Graham Reeves, 36, was with a colleague sampling garden furniture at a factory in Santa Cruz when one of the officials there took them out for a four-hour ride in the forest on the machines.
A coroner heard they were nearly back when Mr Reeves, of Folly Lane, Upper Hale, veered off the road and was catapulted from the bike, landing on his head in a concrete ditch.
Gerard Magill said he was on the trip with Mr Reeves, who had been to Bolivia before, and said he had always wanted to go out quad biking, if he ever returned.
He said in a statement to Basingstoke Coroner's Court that on the journey back he noticed his colleague driving alongside him getting into difficulties.
He said: "I looked over at Graham as he veered off to the left. He was standing up on the bike as though he was trying to ride it out. The bike went nose down and flipped over. It would have been travelling at about 20 – 30 mph."
He said that he tried to give Mr Reeves heart massage and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but could find no pulse.
Coroner Andrew Bradley, who recorded a verdict of accidental death, said: "The only comfort that can be taken was that he was having a good time and died doing something he enjoyed.
"That was snatched from him ,but he would have had very little knowledge of what happened."