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Amanda Eller survives 17 days in Makawao forest by drinking stream water, eating strawberry guava

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Video by Bryan Berkowitz / Special to the Star-Advertiser
On Saturday, Julia Eller discussed her daughter Amanda's rescue from a Maui forest. Amanda was rescued a day earlier after she was missing for over two weeks.
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More than two weeks after she disappeared while hiking, Haiku resident Amanda Eller was found alive Friday afternoon within the Makawao Forest Reserve. Her father, John, said her mental, spiritual and physical strength helped her survive.
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Family spokeswoman Sarah Haynes spoke to the media on Friday in front of the Maui Memorial Medical Center.
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COURTESY TROY HELMER

Amanda Eller, center, talked on a mobile phone moments after being rescued Friday by Javier Cantellops, left, and Chris Berquist inside the Makawao Forest Reserve. Eller went without her shoes for a week after losing them in a flash flood.

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COURTESY SARAH HAYNES

In this photo obtained from video screen grab, Amanda Eller, of Wailuku, Maui, talks from her hospital bed while accompanied by boyfriend Benjamin Konkol, right, on Saturday, in Wailuku, Maui.

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BRYAN BERKOWITZ / SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER

Rescue leads Cantellops, top, and Berquist show some of the technology used in the search for Eller at the Makawao Forest Reserve base camp.

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BRYAN BERKOWITZ / SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER

Julia Eller, mother of Amanda Eller, expressed her gratitude and joy Saturday during a news conference about her daughter’s rescue from the Makawao Forest Reserve.