An adventure-loving real estate agent was killed when her car veered off the side of a steep Arizona mountainside Friday — though her four-legged best friend miraculously survived the 1,000-foot tumble, according to authorities and family.

Kristin Little, 39, was traveling on the Thumb Butte Loop Road around 5 p.m. when her car went off the cliff, and she was ejected halfway down the precipitous drop, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

Sheriff deputies spotted the car at the bottom of the embankment and hiked down to Little’s body, the sheriff’s office said.

Because of the tough terrain and approaching sunset, authorities waited until the morning to retrieve Little, but members of the department remained with her body throughout the night.

While Little was tragically killed, her beloved dog, CJ, who was with her in the vehicle, somehow escaped the wreckage unscathed and was brought to Little’s parents’ home by deputies, according to Fox 10.

“When Krissy rolled her car, CJ must’ve bounced out and when the rescuers got to the location they found CJ next to Krissy’s body,” her mother, Jinger Cutting, told the station.

The heartbroken parent called her daughter “the light of my life.”

Little was a real estate agent based in Prescott and loved the outdoors.

“She and I hiked all the time, all the time,” her mother said. “We would take off, and we would meet at my office or somewhere downtown, and we would just go hiking out on Thumb Butte, or we’d go hiking somewhere around the lakes.”

Little’s body was taken to the medical examiner Saturday morning. The investigation into the crash is still underway. 

Former President Trump will visit the U.S. southern border in Cochise County, Arizona, this Thursday, amid a broken border resulting in hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants pouring into the country, and a drug crisis fueled by fentanyl pushed by drug cartels.

Trump’s campaign announced his visit on Sunday, blaming Vice President Kamala Harris, who was referred to as “border Czar Kamala Harris,” for the “country’s worst border crisis.”

“Despite nearly 10 million immigrant crossings in the last three and a half years, at least 99 individuals on the terrorist watch list being released into our country, deadly drugs like fentanyl being peddled in by cartels and poisoning American communities, and a huge increase in crime and chaos caused by illegal immigrants – there is no end in sight for Kamala Harris’ border crisis,” the announcement read. “Our country continues to witness more and more violent and deadly crimes committed by illegal immigrants.”

Trump’s campaign then referred to Americans like Jocelyn Nungaray, Laken Riley and Rachel Morin, who were all allegedly killed by illegal immigrants.

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Two Venezuelan nationals – 21-year-old Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel and 26-year-old Franklin Jose Peña Ramos – have been charged with capital murder in connection with the death of 12-year-old Nungaray’s death. The two men crossed illegally into the U.S. earlier this year, and are accused of strangling the pre-teen to death in June.

Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old Venezuelan illegal immigrant, was charged with 22-year-old Riley’s murder. Ibarra entered the U.S. through El Paso, Texas, in 2022 and was freed on border parole. He initially lived in New York City, where he was arrested for endangering a child prior to his move to Athens, Georgia.

Ibarra has been charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping, hindering a 911 call and concealing the death of another in connection to Riley’s murder.

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University of Georgia murder suspect Jose Ibarra lived within a five-minute walk of the approximate scene where he allegedly murdered 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley on Feb. 22. (Mark Sims for Fox News Digital/ Laken Riley/ Jose Ibarra)

The El Salvadoran national responsible for Morin’s death, 23-year-old Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, was also in the country illegally, and according to U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), was caught by Border Patrol three times within a matter of days in January and February 2023 and kicked back to Mexico under Title 42 each time. He then successfully entered the U.S. as a gotaway, meaning he entered without being inspected, admitted or paroled by a U.S. immigration officer, in February 2023 near El Paso, Texas.

Trump’s campaign also pointed to the fentanyl crisis, saying over half of the total fentanyl pills entering the country come through the Arizona border.

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“In Maricopa County, more than three people die every day on average due to fentanyl,” the announcement read. “President Donald J. Trump knows that the people of Arizona and the rest of the country cannot take another four years of a missing-in-action border Czar who refuses to act to secure our border and protect our country.”

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Trump will be visiting the southern border in Cochise County, Arizona at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday.

Fox News Digital’s Stephen Sorace, Bill Melugin, Louis Casiano, Greg Norman and Stepheny Price contributed to this report.

The Arizona Wildcats are entering the 2024 college football season as a potential sleeper contender.

Led by star quarterback Noah Fifita, the Wildcats are currently ranked No. 21 in the nation. A lot of that has to do with their offense.

Fifita put together a strong 2023 campaign for Arizona. He completed 72.4 percent of his pass attempts for 2,869 yards, 25 touchdowns, and six interceptions.

Those numbers have put him on the watchlist at the quarterback position for the 2024 campaign. He has even been talked about as a sleeper contender to win the Heisman Trophy.

While it’s very unlikely that he will reach that level of play this year, he is a player who should have an even bigger year than he had in 2023.

NFL Draft Buzz has done a breakdown of Fifita’s game and even compared him to a few NFL quarterbacks.

His best comparison was San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy. However, the other two similar players that were named are Jake Haener and Stetson Bennett.

Simply being compared in any way, shape, or form to Purdy is a huge honor.

Here is a brief snippet of the breakdown that they had for Fifita:

“If Fifita can refine his game and overcome physical limitations, he has the potential to be a dependable backup or spot starter in the NFL. His accuracy, quick decision-making, and mobility are tools that can translate well with the right coaching. While his college success is promising, his ability to adapt and grow at the pro level will be the ultimate test at the next level.”

Those are strong words that provide big-time potential for the young quarterback in the future.

As previously mentioned, the Heisman hype has started growing for Fifita. The Athletic recently gave him a shot at winning the prestigious award.

All of that being said, it will be interesting to see what the upcoming 2024 season has in store for Fifita. He is beginning to be a quarterback that NFL teams are looking at and has an offense around him capable of being elite.

If he plays to his full potential, Fifita will put together a monstrous season and should lead Arizona to a very successful year.