Adventure Magazine

BELIEVE IT OR NOT?

REAL-LIFE MCGUIVER...

In 2018 Angela Hernandez swerved her car to avoid hitting an animal and drove 60 meters down a cliff onto a deserted rocky beach. She suffered a brain hemorrhage, broken collar bone, fractured ribs, collapsed lung and ruptured blood vessels in both eyes and when she came to the water was lapping at her knees.

Using a multitool, she broke her window, crawled out the car, swam to the beach and passed out. When she woke up she began walking the shore looking for help.

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