DENVER (KDVR) — A woman from Colorado made history on Discovery Channel’s hit show “Naked and Afraid” as the series’ first double amputee.

Mandy Horvath is known as the first woman in the world to climb Mount Kilimanjaro without the aid of prosthetic equipment. Locally, she climbed Pikes Peak with just her hands and trekked up Handies Peak. Now, she’s also the first double amputee on the series that aired Sunday.

Horvath set out into a Belizean jungle to survive 21 days with a random partner. The pair isn’t given food, water, or even clothes. That included any prosthetics.

Horvath told Reddit users via the “Naked and Afraid” account that she became an amputee 11 years ago when she was struck by a locomotive. She said she had a head injury consistent with blunt force trauma and it is suspected that she was either hit over the head or incapacitated by a date rape drug. She said she was put on the tracks and left to die.

“One of my goals when I was out there naked, starving, dehydrated, covered in bug bites, blisters forming on my hands, nauseated, desperate, in excruciating pain, scared, lonely, isolated, and everything else…was to make this the most watched episode in @nakedandafraid history,” Horvath posted on her Instagram. “Not for me, but for the little girl in me that for years thought life would never be the same, & for every little girl that finds herself in a traumatic situation after me.”

Horvath said on Reddit that she filmed a documentary in 2021 that detailed her ascent of Kilimanjaro and her life story, which will hopefully premiere later this year. Horvath said she would like to eventually be the first amputee to participate in the “Last One Standing” challenge.

The full episode of “Naked and Afraid” can be watched on Discovery.