Yoga teacher found alive in Hawaii forest after lost for 17 days
Amanda Eller
Rescuers inHawaiihavefoundayogainstructor who went missing for17dayswhile hiking in aforestreserve and survived by drinking from streams and eating plants.
Amanda Eller, 35, went hiking in Maui's MakawaoForestReserve on May 8 but becamelostwhen she walked deeper in the reserve, which covers more than 2,000 acres, instead of heading back to her car as she believed.
Rescuers in a helicopter hired by her family spotted Eller on Fridayafternoon in a ravine by a waterfall, miles from her vehicle.
"Sure enough, God willing, she was right there," Javier Canetellops, a search coordinator who was in the helicopter, told reporters. "Unbelievable."
Eller, who also works as a physical therapist, was malnourished, shoe-less, and had a broken leg and torn meniscus in her knee, as well as sunburn and scrapes. She was airlifted to a hospital and expected to make a full recovery.
Friends had launched a "Find Amanda" campaign on Facebook, and just an hour before she was rescued they offered a $50,000 reward for information. Volunteers spentdaysscouring the thickforestaround the trailhead where she parked.
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"Elated. Excited. Ecstatic," Eller's mother, Julia, told NBC News affiliate KHNL in Honolulu. "I can't even put it into words I'm so incredibly grateful."