The Couple Who Survived Eighteen Days on a Hawaiian Beach on Coconuts | TripMag Stories

In May 2019 a young Maui physical-therapy yoga instructor stepped into the small Makawao Forest Reserve for what was meant to be a three-hour midday hike. She did not return. The seventeen-day search that followed became, briefly, one of the most-watched American wilderness search stories of the decade, and ended with her being found alive in a small ravine by a private helicopter funded by donations.