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Sports are awesome but can also be very dangerous, and today we here at the best betting software will talk a little about a scary moment in sports.
German Ewa Wisnierska already risked every day practicing an extreme sport like paragliding, but she really faced death in February 2007. This was when she was sucked into cumulonimbus clouds, which carried her up to 10,000 meters in the air. Nevertheless, the athlete survived to tell the story.
It all started the year before (2006), when Ewa, a top athlete, suffered a serious accident in the Swiss Alps. After not training for a while to recover from a fractured pelvis, she wanted to "make up for it" and arrive strongly at the 2007 World Championships in Australia. She was one of the favorites.
When clouds started to appear in the Australian sky around noon, Ewa and her friends did not think it would be so serious. They believed in the possibility of dodging the forming clouds, so they decided to train anyway.
Until the situation suddenly took a turn for the worse. A real storm hit the paragliders and a short time later they were fighting for their lives in the clouds.
Higher than Everest
When her paraglider encountered cumulonimbus clouds, Ewa was consumed in a vortex of winds that exceeded 80 kilometers per hour. As they blew upwards, the athlete climbed higher and higher. Even though she was one of the best paragliders in the world, Ewa could do nothing to get down.
Her GPS detected a maximum height of 9946 meters - higher than the highest mountain in the world, Everest, which is 8848. Only she was not equipped for it and ended up losing consciousness, both due to the cold and the lack of oxygen.
She is believed to have faced temperatures of minus 55 degrees Celsius at the top, where she stayed for about an hour. A Chinese paraglider, He Zhongpin, was eventually killed by lightning in the same cloud where Ewa was trapped.
Flying for life
The German woman against all odds survived. According to doctors, fainting may have helped Ewa survive, as it slowed her heartbeat and vital functions.
When the storm was over, the paraglider began to freefall to her death. Until, after falling more than 3,000 meters, she regained her senses. Still disoriented and with her paraglider covered in ice, Ewa Wisnierska managed to land safely - three and a half hours later, seven kilometers from where she had been engulfed by the cloud.
Even on the ground, Ewa's nightmare was not over: she landed far away from any trace of civilization and her crew. Her radio did not work, but her cell phone finally rang: she managed to pass on her coordinates to the team, who rushed to rescue her. Like a miracle, her only injuries were frostbite, and she was soon discharged.
In 2010, the Australian TV network ABC1 produced a documentary about Ewa's story, called Miracle in the Storm. She says that as soon as she woke up, all she could think about was her parents and how they would suffer if she died - so she mustered her last energies to get out of the cloud and fly back to safety.
At first, her friends couldn't believe that she had flown so high - they thought it was a GPS measurement error. Until they plugged the equipment into their computer and watched the full trajectory. But sadly, Ewa's incredible survival story was eclipsed by the death of the other Chinese athlete, which left the paragliding community in mourning.
We hope you liked this little piece about the weird, and sometimes scary, world of sports, and if you did, stay tuned because bettingsoftware.com will be back soon with more great content for you!
German Ewa Wisnierska already risked every day practicing an extreme sport like paragliding, but she really faced death in February 2007. This was when she was sucked into cumulonimbus clouds, which carried her up to 10,000 meters in the air. Nevertheless, the athlete survived to tell the story.
It all started the year before (2006), when Ewa, a top athlete, suffered a serious accident in the Swiss Alps. After not training for a while to recover from a fractured pelvis, she wanted to "make up for it" and arrive strongly at the 2007 World Championships in Australia. She was one of the favorites.
When clouds started to appear in the Australian sky around noon, Ewa and her friends did not think it would be so serious. They believed in the possibility of dodging the forming clouds, so they decided to train anyway.
Until the situation suddenly took a turn for the worse. A real storm hit the paragliders and a short time later they were fighting for their lives in the clouds.
Higher than Everest
When her paraglider encountered cumulonimbus clouds, Ewa was consumed in a vortex of winds that exceeded 80 kilometers per hour. As they blew upwards, the athlete climbed higher and higher. Even though she was one of the best paragliders in the world, Ewa could do nothing to get down.
Her GPS detected a maximum height of 9946 meters - higher than the highest mountain in the world, Everest, which is 8848. Only she was not equipped for it and ended up losing consciousness, both due to the cold and the lack of oxygen.
She is believed to have faced temperatures of minus 55 degrees Celsius at the top, where she stayed for about an hour. A Chinese paraglider, He Zhongpin, was eventually killed by lightning in the same cloud where Ewa was trapped.
Flying for life
The German woman against all odds survived. According to doctors, fainting may have helped Ewa survive, as it slowed her heartbeat and vital functions.
When the storm was over, the paraglider began to freefall to her death. Until, after falling more than 3,000 meters, she regained her senses. Still disoriented and with her paraglider covered in ice, Ewa Wisnierska managed to land safely - three and a half hours later, seven kilometers from where she had been engulfed by the cloud.
Even on the ground, Ewa's nightmare was not over: she landed far away from any trace of civilization and her crew. Her radio did not work, but her cell phone finally rang: she managed to pass on her coordinates to the team, who rushed to rescue her. Like a miracle, her only injuries were frostbite, and she was soon discharged.
In 2010, the Australian TV network ABC1 produced a documentary about Ewa's story, called Miracle in the Storm. She says that as soon as she woke up, all she could think about was her parents and how they would suffer if she died - so she mustered her last energies to get out of the cloud and fly back to safety.
At first, her friends couldn't believe that she had flown so high - they thought it was a GPS measurement error. Until they plugged the equipment into their computer and watched the full trajectory. But sadly, Ewa's incredible survival story was eclipsed by the death of the other Chinese athlete, which left the paragliding community in mourning.
We hope you liked this little piece about the weird, and sometimes scary, world of sports, and if you did, stay tuned because bettingsoftware.com will be back soon with more great content for you!
