For two weeks, Amanda Eller's friends and family lived in fear of the worst, after she went missing in Maui 16 days ago.
On Friday evening they finally got the call they'd all been waiting for.
"Elated. Excited. Ecstatic. I can't even put it into words-- I'm so incredibly grateful," said her mom Julia Eller after she got the news.
Search crews found the 35 year-old, who hails from Maryland alive and well in the bamboo forest in Haiku. She'd been spotted from a helicopter.
"It's an indescribable sense of relief," said Julia Klein.
"To see what they were dealing with with the search was so overwhelming it was like-- 'Oh my God, how are they going to find her?", said Lisa Klein, who is friends with Eller and lives in D.C.
WUSA spoke to Klein as she was heading to Maui to see her friend.
Eller had been out alone, then got injured while hiking and got lost.
"When you live on Maui that’s how you do," said Klein. "They're out there all the time."
Going for a run in that forest "would be a normal natural thing for her to do," added Klein.
Eller is believed not to have had any supplies with her.
"She was able to keep her head together, which I think was the most important thing," said Klein.
After she was found, Eller was flown by helicopter to Maui Memorial Medical Center where she was reunited with her family.. She is reportedly in remarkably good shape.