Mountain car crash woman to lose both feet

A woman who was stranded for days after her car hurtled off a mountain pass will lose both her feet as a result of her injuries, her family says.

Kristin Hopkins wrote pleas for help on an umbrella she managed to push through a broken window of her crashed car, hoping to attract the attention of drivers on a scenic road above.

It was five days before anyone spotted the overturned car 80ft down an embankment in an aspen grove off US Highway 285, overlooking the sprawling ranchlands and surrounding mountains of the South Park area of Colorado.