A Hiker Falls 600 Feet Down A Mountain, Is Discovered By State Troopers, And Surprisingly Attracts Company

Note: This story is a re-publication of an event that originally made headlines in June 2018.

21-year-old Amelia Milling was hiking in Alaska when she slipped and fell. Battered and bruised, she soon realized she was lost.

Seemingly out of nowhere, a husky appeared and guided her back onto the main path.

Milling and Nanook the husky hiked together for a few more kilometers, but Milling slipped and fell into a freezing river she was attempting to cross.

To stay afloat, she had to remove her backpack. “I was really struggling to breathe,” she said. “My whole body was numb.”

Unable to reach a branch, Nanook jumped into the freezing waters, grabbed Milling’s backpack, and paddled her to dry land.

Using her satellite phone, Milling called for help, and they were rescued the following day by Alaska state troopers.

Nanook was reunited with his owner, Scott Swift, who lives nearby. Milling called Nanook her “guardian angel” and recounted how the husky camped outside her tent during the night.

“I told him several times that I love him,” she said. “And I’ll never forget him.”