A birthday hiking trip of a lifetime wound up being a death-defying fight for her life for a New York City mother of two, leaving her neck slashed, her hand stabbed, as well as physical and emotional scars that left 13 stitches and a nightmare that will never be forgotten.Alexis Rowan, 27, survived the northern Arizona mountain-hike attack only because of screams that were heard by a woman in a nearby home, forcing the suspect to flee, harrowing doorbell camera footage showed."I was like, oh my God, my neck: I can't die like this, this is not the way," Alexis Rowan told WABC after returning to New York City after last week's ordeal on a tourist mountain hike in Arizona."I have my kids to go home to."NURSE IMPALED BY POLE DURING HIKE FORCED TO TREK 10 MILES FOR HELP: 'A FREAK THING'Ring camera footage captures a hiker, 27, in the Arizona mountains fighting for her life from the ground below a neck-slashing attacker, who only flees with a nearby woman comes out of the door after hearing her harrowing screams for help.
(FOX 10 Phoenix)Graphic photos shared by the New York Post showed the deep slash left on her neck and the 10 stitches that closed it, along with three more from being stabbed in the hand.She never wants "to look at another mountain again," she told the Post, while the lasting scar will remind her of the horror with every look in the mirror.On the Wednesday, Aug.19, hike at the Havasupai Indian Reservation – just one day after her 27th birthday – Alexis was left briefly behind a friend when the suspect approached.
The suspect, identified as Taylor Nardo Paya, 29, is a Havasupai tribe member with a rap sheet that included a guilty plea to assault, according to FOX 10 Phoenix.GRIZZLY BEAR MAULS HIKER, DRAGS HIM DOZENS OF FEET ON GLACIER NATIONAL PARK TRAILRing camera footage showed Arizona mountain hiker Alexis Rowan, 27, fighting her attacker who had just slashed her neck with a knife as she bleeds profusely.(FOX 10 Phoenix / Ring)"It was the first ...