Yoga Teacher Amanda Eller After Rescue From Hawaii Forest: 'I Chose Life'

Mark Osbourne, Soo Youn and Wil Cruz wrote:

The woman who was rescued after going missing for more than two weeks in a forest in Hawaii said on Saturday that she had to choose between life and death in order to stay alive.

"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," said Amanda Eller, 35, from her hospital bed, hours after rescuers in a helicopter plucked her from a ravine. "I chose life."

Eller had been missing for 16 days when she was found in good condition on Friday at about 5 p.m. local time.

She thanked the Maui community, the volunteers 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," she said in a video posted on the Facebook page "Find Amanda," which was created after she went missing.

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