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Real Survival Stories

Paragliding Disaster: Sucked Towards the Stratosphere (Repeat)

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week, we delve into the Real Survival Stories archive. In case you missed them the first time around, there are over 70 stories in the back catalogue available to listen to now. We’ll be back as normal, every week, after a short festive break. A picturesque paragliding flight becomes a terrifying nightmare when a massive storm rolls in. Sucked into the clouds, Ewa Wiśnierska is pelted by hailstones the size of oranges. With lightning crackling all around her, she is sent hurtling upwards - still clinging to her parachute. Soon, she’ll be higher than Everest and nearing the cruising altitude of a jumbo jet. Covered in ice, approaching the edge of the breathable atmosphere… how on earth does she make it down in one piece? A Noiser production, written by Sarah Ward. If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Mickey could try to sell his car privately.

0:04.0

Or get it sold today with we buy any car.

0:08.0

He could spend days on end trying to sell to a bunch of time wasters.

0:14.0

Or selling a flash and head to the fun fair with the kids.

0:18.0

Proper gutted.

0:20.9

Or proper impressed.

0:23.5

To get a quote in 30 seconds,

0:25.1

enter your reg number now at we by any car.com.

0:32.3

Wednesday, February the 14th, 2007, New South Wales, Australia.

0:39.3

German paraglider, 36-year-old Eva Vishniewski, is sweeping through the air high above Mount Bora.

0:47.3

She slips, turns and glides effortlessly, bird-like, riding the eddies and updrafts of warm summer air.

0:56.0

This is wherever feels at her absolute peak.

1:00.0

She tightens her grip on the control lights, then grits her teeth and dives to gain some speed,

1:06.0

dancing deftly from one thermal current to another.

1:14.6

Using her radio, she checks in with the ground support team.

1:18.6

She is waiting to hear the updated weather forecast.

1:22.6

Up ahead, black clouds are gathering. But it'll take more than a chance of rain to stop Ever.

1:25.6

She's soaring. After a a few minutes ever glances around

1:32.5

she's surprised to find herself more or less alone when she last looked there were over 100 fellow

1:39.4

paragliders in the air now she can only see a handful where did everyone go the answer comes in the air. Now she can only see a handful. Where did everyone go? The answer comes in the form of the swiftly

1:48.8

darkening sky. Her glider jolts and judders as she hits pockets of unstable air. She also

1:55.7

notices the temperature dropping. She shivers, suddenly aware of how few layers she's wearing. Whenever starts feeling

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