> Before the crash, I had spent a year and a half with my parents on their research station only 30 miles away. I learned a lot about life in the rainforest, that it wasn't too dangerous.
Arguably, the biggest dangers of the Amazon forrest are malaria-carrying mosquitoes, poisonous snakes, spiders and scorpions, and lack of access to drinkable water and edible food. Since she had lived in a research station, she was probably vaccinated and knew how to mitigate the other risks (e.g. there is plenty of edible food, you just need to know how to identify it).
All in all, it seems a better deal than getting stranded in the Andes, the Sahara or the African savannahs.
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