The incredible story of a young woman lost in the Grand Canyon of Colorado
What was supposed to be a leisurely ride through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Arizona on March 12 became a nightmare for a Texas student when her GPS drove her to a path that did not exist. In the middle of nowhere, her car ran out of gas and her cell phone lost the signal. Amber VanHecke acknowledged in an interview with ABC News that she lost her temper when she realized the mess she had gotten herself into.
"I was panicking, crying and sobbing - it was a mess," she explained. Despite the chaos of her situation, the young woman was put into action and the first thing she did was manage the food and the water she had packed for her walk, she also wrote on an abandoned water tank with tape a help messages one Of 10 feet that said SOS, and with stones another of 30 feet that said HELP.
The girl was recording videos on her cell phone in which she expressed her emotions and messages to her family in case she could not get out of trouble. Finally on March 17, tired of waiting for help that did not arrive, she decided to leave her car and started walking to try to find a telephone signal. Before, she left notes on her car stating that she was headed this way.
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After walking about 11 miles, she finally got a signal and was able to make a 911 call, but the connection fell off. Fortunately, it was enough for the rescue service to send a helicopter in search of her. From the air they saw the signal she had written with rocks asking for help near her vehicle, and as they descended, they read the notes that explained their destiny and thus managed to locate her. She had spent 119 hours lost.
The rescuers who attended her say that the young woman survived because she acted correctly in these situations, such as arming the signs with the rocks or leave in writing where she went when she left her car. No wonder, when asked how she did it in order not to lose her judgment, she replied: "I had things to do."
"I was panicking, crying and sobbing - it was a mess," she explained. Despite the chaos of her situation, the young woman was put into action and the first thing she did was manage the food and the water she had packed for her walk, she also wrote on an abandoned water tank with tape a help messages one Of 10 feet that said SOS, and with stones another of 30 feet that said HELP.The girl was recording videos on her cell phone in which she expressed her emotions and messages to her family in case she could not get out of trouble. Finally on March 17, tired of waiting for help that did not arrive, she decided to leave her car and started walking to try to find a telephone signal. Before, she left notes on her car stating that she was headed this way.
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After walking about 11 miles, she finally got a signal and was able to make a 911 call, but the connection fell off. Fortunately, it was enough for the rescue service to send a helicopter in search of her. From the air they saw the signal she had written with rocks asking for help near her vehicle, and as they descended, they read the notes that explained their destiny and thus managed to locate her. She had spent 119 hours lost.
The rescuers who attended her say that the young woman survived because she acted correctly in these situations, such as arming the signs with the rocks or leave in writing where she went when she left her car. No wonder, when asked how she did it in order not to lose her judgment, she replied: "I had things to do."
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