She has been described as the "world's luckiest woman".
And as Ewa Wisnierska began recovering from the most incredible ordeal, she probably thought that was an understatement.
Caught in a raging storm, the 35-year-old paraglider had been sucked up to a height of 32,000ft - higher than Mount Everest.
She survived lightning, pounding hailstones as big as tennis balls, temperatures as low as minus 50c and oxygen deprivation. She came down to earth covered in ice and gasping for air - but alive.
Doctors feared she might have suffered brain damage - but apart from frostbite and bruising she was given a clean bill of health. During her 80-minute ordeal under the span of her paraglider, the German adventurer was taken so high that she passed out for nearly 40 minutes.
In that same storm, a Chinese paraglider died from oxygen deprivation and the freezing temperatures.
With news video.
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