She knew then that being rescued was more than just a slim chance.

It was one thing to crawl out of her car, it was another to stare 200 feet up at rocky and jagged cliffs to the highway. Angela Hernandez Found Herself In Serious Danger With it, she was able to break open the one remaining window in order to climb out.Īfter she managed to pull herself from the mangled wreck she had passed out–no doubt from the numerous injuries and exertion it took to extract herself. Miraculously, she found a utility knife that she kept in the front of her car. She didn't know the extent of her injuries, but she knew by the looks of her car, she shouldn't be alive. And when she looked up, the entire top of her car had been ripped off. When she came to, she panicked that she was in the ocean. This Oregon native had been traveling to California when she had swerved to avoid hitting an animal. RELATED: Elderly Man Missing During Winter Storm Found In Ditch And Carried To Safety By State Trooper But Angela Hernandez found herself in serious danger when she woke up at the bottom of a cliff with water wading into her car up to her knees.

'It was spectacular for the three generations of us to be together enjoying it all at once,' said Jon.Angela doesn't remember much of anything from the crash. As we went up, it felt pretty good,' explained Everett.Įverett, his son, and granddaughter Sidney broke up the 13-hour trek over a few days to reach the summit as a family on July 18.

'I guess I was pleasantly surprised that when I got up there, I did not feel like I was huffing and puffing so much. With the blessing of his wife, Clara, Everett began training for the climb by scaling the stairs of his 17-floor senior living community. 'Kept going stretch by stretch, further and further, and just incredible to see him assembling those cables,' recalled Jon. He says his next goal just 'came to him' and since his son, Jon, is an avid backpacker, climbing Yosemite's Half Dome wasn't a half-bad idea. 'I went up to the airport in Novato, got in the plane, the guy got on my back and up we went, down we went and I Iiked that a lot,' said Everett. The retired professor from Oakland just added the challenging climb to his list of other fantastic feats, including jumping out of an airplane for his birthday two years ago. Cheers echoed from Half Dome in Yosemite National as 93-year-old Everett Kalin reached the summit earlier this month. Cheers echoed from Half Dome in Yosemite National as 93-year-old Everett Kalin reached the summit earlier this month.

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