Her clothing was ripped, her glasses were gone, and her collarbone was shattered when she woke up the next morning.
She was alive, nevertheless. She subsequently remarked, “The forest saved my life,” attributing her fall’s cushioning to the thick vegetation.
Koepcke was reared in the Amazon by her scientific parents, who established the Panguana research station.
She kept thinking about her father’s survival tips, which were to locate water and pursue it downstream. People come from water.
She struggled with hunger, fatigue, and mosquitoes as she traveled through the bush for days. She only consumed a bag of crash site candy.
