Hero Hiker Helps One Armed Woman Save Her Mother

A hiker became an unexpected hero while enjoying the scenery of the Multnomah Falls in Oregon. While capturing the surroundings on the hiking trail for his YouTube channel, Taylor Root suddenly heard a desperate call for help. Responding to the cries, he came upon a terrifying sight. A young woman with one arm was desperately clinging to her mother, who was hanging off the cliff’s side.

It was a heart-wrenching scene as the mother begged “Let me go,” fearing her weight would drag her daughter down with her. Both her daughter and Root refused to give up on her. “I’m not!” the daughter insisted. Root then added a reassuring, “No, no, no. You’re not going anywhere.”

With tremendous strength and resolve, Root pulled the woman to safety, literally dragging her from the edge of danger. The young daughter had been holding on to her mother with her only arm, but Root’s intervention turned a potentially tragic situation into a miraculous one. The video ended with a heartwarming scene of the mother and daughter, shaken but safe, embracing each other in relief and gratitude.

Root said he was grateful he happened to be in the right place at the right time that day..He said ironically, earlier in the day he received a prophetic fortune cookie, which he said read “You will have an opportunity to shine this week.” Root’s brave intervention turned what otherwise would have been a tragic ending into an extraordinary rescue.