2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
What was supposed to be a pleasant walk through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, in Arizona, this past March 12 turned into a real nightmare for a student from Texas when her GPS led her to a path that did not exist.
In the middle of nowhere, his car ran out of gas and his cell phone lost the signal.
Amber VanHecke acknowledged in an interview with ABC News that she lost her nerve when she realized the mess she was in. "I was panicking, crying and sobbing - I was in trouble," she explained.
Despite the chaos of her situation, the young woman took action and the first thing she did was manage the food and the water she had packed for her walk, she also wrote about a water tank with adhesive tape, a message of help one 10 feet that said SOS, and with stones another 30 feet that said HELP.
The girl was recording videos on her cell phone in which she expressed her emotions and messages for her family in case she could not get out of the predicament alive.
Finally on March 17, tired of waiting for help that was not coming, she decided to leave her car and started walking to try to find a phone signal. Before, she left notes written in her car indicating that she was heading east.
After walking about 11 miles, he finally got a signal and was able to make a 911 call, but the connection went down. Fortunately it was enough for the rescue service to send a helicopter in search of it. From the air they spotted the sign he had written with rocks asking for help near his vehicle and, when descending, they read the notes explaining his destination and thus managed to locate it.
119 hours had been lost.
The rescuers who treated her say that the young woman survived because she acted correctly in these situations, such as putting together the signs with the rocks or writing down where she was going when she left her car.
No wonder, when asked how he did it so as not to lose his mind, he replied: "I had things to do."
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