Gripping first episode of a new podcast. Real Survival Stories tells the «astonishing tales of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary situations». In this first episode: a paraglider gets sucked into a thunderstorm, rises to 10000 meters, becomes unconscious…and somehow survives.

From Weekly Filet #452, in August 2023.

Paragliding Disaster: Sucked Towards the Stratosphere

Paragliding Disaster: Sucked Towards the Stratosphere

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