This is an amazing story because she did this without food. So, her mental state would be hallucinating without food. Luckily, she had a water filter with her so she could drink water filtered from a stream without getting giardia or worse. Also, with broken bones this would be a pretty horrific experience and most people just wouldn't survive something like this. But she did.
'Utterly amazing': US hiker missing for nine days found alive
A
badly hurt missing woman who endured nine days without food in the
fire-threatened Californian wilderness has been found alive in what
rescuers called an "utterly amazing" story of survival. Miyuki Harwood,
62, was taken to hospital with broken bones and severe exhaustion after
going missing…
AFP
'Utterly amazing': US hiker missing for nine days found alive
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Miyuki Harwood, from the
California town of Orangevale, was found August 29, 2015, after she went
missing during a hiking trip on August 20, 2015 in remote Fresno County
(AFP Photo/Mark Ralston)
San Francisco (AFP) - A badly hurt missing woman who endured
nine days without food in the fire-threatened Californian wilderness has
been found alive in what rescuers called an "utterly amazing" story of
survival.
Miyuki Harwood, 62, was taken to hospital with
broken bones and severe exhaustion after going missing during a hiking
trip on August 20 in an inhospitable section of Fresno County.
An increasingly desperate Harwood survived by drinking water from a creek, before rescuers located her on Saturday.
"They found her in a very remote area in the Sierra Nevada mountains on a very rocky location," Sheriff Margaret Mims said.
California Highway Patrol officer Rusty Hotchkiss said Harwood, from the California town of Orangevale, had only planned on hiking for the day and didn't have any food.
"She basically crawled from where she was injured down to a creek," Hotchkiss told CNN.
Search teams said finding the woman alive was a great reward.
An increasingly desperate Harwood survived by drinking water from a creek, before rescuers located her on Saturday.
"They found her in a very remote area in the Sierra Nevada mountains on a very rocky location," Sheriff Margaret Mims said.
California Highway Patrol officer Rusty Hotchkiss said Harwood, from the California town of Orangevale, had only planned on hiking for the day and didn't have any food.
"She basically crawled from where she was injured down to a creek," Hotchkiss told CNN.
"It took her about two days to do that. And then she was able to drink from the creek with the water filter to stay alive."
Teams
of search and rescue workers spent days scouring the treacherous area
and their work was hampered by smoke from wildfires blazing in the
region.Search teams said finding the woman alive was a great reward.
"When
you are nine days into it and really starting to wonder... and then to
have such a success story is utterly amazing," officer Jim Abrams said.
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