Claire Nelson almost died while hiking at Joshua Tree. ... In one, Claire describes trying to move and hearing the "click, click, click, crunch, crunch, crunch" of her broken bones.

An injured hiker survived for 72 hours in Joshua Tree National Park after drinking her own urine. Claire Nelson was found stranded in southern California three days after she fell and broke her pel… ...

This is an edited extract from Things I Learned From Falling by Claire Nelson, to be published on 5 March by Aster, £12.99. To order a copy for £10.39 with free p&p until 31 March, call 01603 ...

Claire Nelson, 35, recalled her ordeal Tuesday afternoon from her hospital room at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, where she is recovering from a fractured pelvis and other bones.

The Kiwi hiker who lay trapped in the sun in a US desert for three days with a shattered pelvis is awaiting surgery to piece her broken bones back together. Former Aucklander Claire Nelson, 35 ...

After four days lying on the desert floor, immobilized from a broken pelvis, Claire Nelson had an epiphany: "What a waste of time fear can be." In 2018, the London, England-based writer fell some ...

When Nelson was found, she was conscious and talking with rescuers, but appeared to have suffered some broken and fractured bones, Smith said. It looked like she had fallen more than 15 feet, he said.

Claire Nelson, 35, who holds both British and New Zealand citizenship, was hiking in Joshua Tree National Park in the Californian desert when she slipped off a boulder and fell 15 feet.