Hiker Rescued After Falling 100 Feet Off Cliff And Writing Goodbye Notes To Family The NYDailyNews is reporting on helluva story about a young adventure-seeker who almost lost her life in the Arizona desert… A 25-year-old hiker who fell 100 feet from an Arizona cliff wrote goodbye notes to her family while severely injured and stranded over 24 hours, she said Monday. Rescuers found Amber Kohnhorst on May 21 below the Rose Cliffs Trail in the Arizona Strip of northwestern Arizona after a search helicopter woke her up around 7 p.m., according to the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office. Kohnhorst, a nurse from Minnesota, had left the bed and breakfast where she was staying on a sunset hike around 4:30 p.m. a day earlier. She suffered three fractures in her back, a crushed pelvis, a broken nose and multiple other injuries in her fall but survived thanks to her rescuers. Kohnhorst, an experienced hiker who had brought a whistle with her, spoke from her hospital bed Monday in an interview with KSTU-TV about the hours she spent languishing. “I couldn’t lie flat, and every time I moved, I screamed. And with that, I blew my whistle thinking maybe somebody would hear me. But I was in the middle of nowhere,” Kohnhorst said. “I wrote letters to my parents, ‘I’m sorry, I’m trying to blow my whistle, I’ve fallen.’ And that was going to be my goodbye.” Can you even IMAGINE?!? Kohnhorst was saved when owners of the bed and breakfast she was staying at alerted authorities that she was missing. A search team heard her blowing a whistle she carried with her. Per usual these days… The GoFundMe page had raised over $11,500 by Tuesday night. Kohnhorst expressed thanks even as she showed the TV station where doctors stitched one of her ears back into her head. “This week has been hard but I have to remember I’m alive,” she said. Crazy right? Amber better have her azz in Church on Sunday. Image via Amber Kohnhorst/GoFundMe
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Life Is Real: Hiker Falls 100 Feet Off Cliff, Writes Goodbye Note To Family, Gets Rescued
