‘Lucky’ Paraglider blanked out in storm
‘A German paraglider is being hailed as “the luckiest woman in the world” after surviving a storm cell that sucked her higher than Mount Everest during a flight in northern New South Wales.
Ewa Wisnierska, 35, spent 40 minutes unconscious while being carried to a height of approximately 30,000 feet, where she was pounded by hail, narrowly avoided lightning and was covered in ice.
A 40-year-old Chinese paraglider sucked into the same storm cell was found dead yesterday, a day after going missing.’
