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If you're a parent, or maybe just inclined to anxiety, you will be familiar with catastrophizing.

Your elaborate inner monologue can develop worst-case scenarios that would make horror movie director Eli Roth blush.

No matter how safe or ordinary the situation is, a lumbering ghoul of panic can escape the dark murder basement of your mind at any moment,

and render you numb and incapacitated with what is very probably with 99.99% certainly not a real thing to worry about.

But what if that 0.0001% does happen?

Well, then you switch from worrying to surviving.

On today's Saturday, Matt and I, we bring you tales of survival.

Noiser's new weekly show, Real Survival Stories, puts you in the shoes of ordinary people confronted with extraordinary circumstances and not giving in.

In the episode we're sharing today, a picturesque paragliding flight becomes a terrifying nightmare when a massive storm rolls in.

Socked into the clouds, Eva Vishnierska is pelted by hailstones the size of oranges.

With lightning crackling all around her, she's sent hurtling upwards, still clinging to her parachute.

Soon she'll be higher than Everest, 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?

While you listen to find out, be sure to search for and follow Real Survival Stories from Noiser.

We put a link in the show notes to make it easy for you.

Hi, I'm David Brown, the host of Wonder Woman's Podcast Business Wars.

And in our new season, two of the world's leading hotel brands, Hilton and Marriott,

stare down family drama and financial disasters.

Listen to business wars on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome to Wonder Woman's Podcast.

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

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