At the same time Gold Silver and related mining shares started climbing. It helped get the index numbers and the general market confidence grew and those shares started following PMs up.
It took seven years 2007 for the Dow to break even on Jan 2000 high, only to crash again 1 year later in 2008. THAT crash took 5 years to break even 2013.
This most recent crash may go many many years before a break even for that 26,000 high.