Yoga teacher Amanda Eller who was lost for 17 days in a forest in Hawaii, is found trapped in ravine after massive search
- Amanda Eller was malnourished, shoeless, 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
An American yoga instructor who spent two weeks lost in the wilds of Hawaii, surviving on plants and water, has been found alive after an ordeal she described as “the toughest days of my life”.
Amanda Eller, 35, was rescued Friday beside a creek bed at the bottom of a ravine in a national forest on Maui after a helicopter spotted her.
She had been out on a hike when she vanished.
“The last 17 days of my life have been the toughest days of my life and it’s been a really significant spiritual journey,” Eller said from her hospital bed in a tearful video posted Saturday on the “Find Amanda” Facebook page created after her disappearance on May 8.
“It did come down to life and death and I had to choose. And... I chose life. I wasn’t going to take the easy way out, even if that meant more suffering and pain for myself,” she said.