We have happy, amazing news to announce. In case you didn’t see the news this weekend, Amanda Eller, the 35-year-old yoga teacher who got lost during a hike in a forest in Hawaii has been found! As you’ll remember, Eller had been last seen by her boyfriend after going for a hike, leaving her cell phone behind. She had been missing for more than two weeks.
Speaking from her hospital bed about her time in the forest, she said, “There were times of total fear and loss and wanting to give up, and it did come down to life and death, and I had to choose. I chose life.”1
She was found on Friday around 5 p.m. in surprisingly good condition; according to her mother Julia Eller one leg was fractured and she needed some treatments for her ankles.
“Sarah Haynes, a friend who ran the Facebook page, told ABC News that Eller was located by a search helicopter Friday afternoon in a ravine near Twin Falls. Eller was able to flag down the helicopter, Haynes said.
‘She was waving up at us while we were in the helicopter, and we got her out nice and safe,’ Chris Berquist, who was in the helicopter, told ABC News Radio late Friday. ‘She was not injured. She has a little bit of exposure from the sun, a little bit of sunburn. She lost her shoes a few days in. But no injuries.'”1
Haynes reports that her friend lived on water and plants. What a strong woman. We are so happy for her family and her boyfriend who are thrilled to have her home.
Eller was able to speak to her father from the helicopter and was met by an ambulance at the helipad and taken to Maui Memorial Hospital.
She thanked the volunteers in Maui who helped look for her and those who donated to help fund the search, “People that know me, that don’t know me, just under the idea of helping one person make it out of the woods alive just warms my heart.”1
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