Apparently, she credits watching Survivorman with her dad when she was a child. "Going downhill, finding water, following a creek, slept curled up in ball, found a trail then the highway." Word got back to Les about this and he skyped a call to her in the hospital and told her he looked up to her. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/16-year-plane-crash-survivor-thought-nightmare-32513971

Les Stroud if you didn't know is a Toronto hospital himself after a vehicle accident in Mongolia left him with broken ribs and a collapsed lung.