“I was never afraid,” Grant Gunderson tells PEOPLE
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- Grant Gunderson, 67, set off on what was supposed to be a short holiday hike last year, only to get lost and end up falling down a steep ravine
- Months later, he tells PEOPLE he was “never afraid” because he knew that “sooner or later, there would be a search party looking for me”
- Sure enough, he was found about 12 hours later after a worried call from his wife to officials
A 67-year-old hiker survived a steep fall into a ravine in the dark and was lost for almost 12 hours before he was discovered by a 40-person search and rescue team.
“I’m just happy to be back home with my wife and family and friends,” Grant Gunderson, an investor from Granite Bay, Calif., tells PEOPLE via email of losing his way while hiking Mount Tamalpais in Marin County on Oct. 31.
“I feel like God has blessed me with a second chance to make a difference for Him in this life,” he adds…