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…

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