DESPITE HER BROKEN COLLARBONE and other injuries, Juliane hacked her way through the rainforest. She frequently heard planes overhead, but She had no way to signla , She drank water, but she was too stunned to eat anything at all. On the tenth day, she stumbled onto a canoe and hut, where she was found house later by some Peruvian lumbermen. They tricd to treat her injuries. One of them used salt and kerosene to clean out the insects that were buried in her skin. Juliane remembers counting thirty - five worms that came out of her arms alone. The following day she was taken on a seven - hour journey by canoe down the river to the town of Tournavista, where a loco pilot flew her to her to her father, in Pucallpa.
JULIANE RECOVERED and went back to Germany, where she became a zoologist.
In 1998 she came back to Peru as consultant to Werner Herzog' s documentary about her ordeal, which was called Wing Hope.