(August 27 2008)--A 21-year-old woman is recovering after surviving five days in a North Carolina ravine that hid the wreckage of her pickup truck from searchers.
Authorities said Amber Pennell was found Monday night in the wreckage, which was hidden by trees and vines at the bottom of a 100-foot-deep ravine off a highway.
Her husband Mitchell Pennell said on ABC's "Good Morning America" that Amber told him she clung to life for the sake of their two young children.
He said surgeons put a rod in his wife's broken leg and that she would be fine despite a broken arm, skull fracture and other injuries.
Emergency officials said workers used ropes to lower themselves into the ravine to reach the woman.
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