Tracey Granger survived after spending the night at the bottom of a mountain in near-freezing temperatures. Her husband, John Schroder, thinks he knows why.
“It’s a tribute to her fitness and to her internal energy that she was able to survive the night on that cold mountain,” Schroder told NBCLA Tuesday.
For more than 12 hours, Tracy Granger laid outside of her damaged white truck in frigid temperatures. The 56 year old somehow lost control of her truck and plunged 300 feet down a snowy canyon off Angeles Forest Highway.
Granger, an art gallery worker from Juniper Hills, was headed back home from Pasadena Sunday night. Schroder says his wife called him around 7 p.m. Sunday night, asking about road conditions.
He never imagined her marooned in the middle of a snowy forest -- camouflaged by her white truck.
Luckily, a Los Angeles Sheriff's rescue team member spotted tire tracks off a berm. Shortly, Granger was spotted. She was plucked from the ravine Monday morning and is recovering in the hospital.
“She’s a very fit person and quite strong,” Schroder said. “She’s a vegetarian. She’s been practicing energy accumulation for a lot of years and that’s what pulled her through that hypothermia.”
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