. >> reporter: karen kline, warm, safe, and lucky to be alive this morning after incredibly surviving a harrowing ordeal. the 47-year-old pennsylvania woman, her husband, eric, and 10-year-old son, isaac, were in las vegas for a holiday getaway. >> it's a family vacation. week long over the holiday. >> reporter: they decided to visit a world wonder. >> we would go to brice canyon and duoto tgo to the north rim. >> reporter: it was in the harsh north rim everything went south. their cell phone gps recommending a shortcut. >> it diverted us on a forest road. >> reporter: the family realized it was a wrong turn to a narrow closed road. eventually, getting stuck in the mud. >> and for an hour, we tried to get the car out. we had no cell service. we couldn't call anybody to help us out. and it was decided that, look, there is a main road up ahead and i have professional and recreational experience lifelong in the outdoors, so i said, well, i'll just walk up to the main road. i can do this. i'm a runner. >> reporter: kline found nothing but the dead of night wandering way off course. >> it got to be 1:30 in the morning and at this point, i had walked about 26 mil