The storm carried the paraglider above clouds, but then something unexpected happened.
Paragliding is one of the most dangerous sports in the world. Almost everyone dreams to experience the free fall from an aeroplane in order to get an adventurous feeling. Although many times this once in a lifetime experience proves out to be the worst, as in this video we are gonna tell you about Ewa Wisnierska, who experienced the most bone chilling paragliding of human history. So without wasting any time, let's get started.
On 17th Of February 2007, German paragliding champion Ewa Wisnierska was standing with 200 fellow paragliders on Mount Borah in New South Wales, Australia. They were about to launch off as part of their training for next week’s Paragliding World Championship. As the competitors were debriefed, however, there was a warning.
As per the warning, Some storm clouds had been sighted to the north, and as the day progressed, thunderstorm warnings got more severe. The paragliders had been cautioned, and Ewa set her GPS and tracking log. The clouds didn’t look so bad at first glance. She prepared to take off, not expecting what would soon happen.
Strapped into her glider, Ewa took a good run forward and launched herself into the air. On the ground, the rest of the German team followed in a van to track her progress, checking in with her via radio from time to time.
As she headed north, the first part of Ewa’s journey was quite calm. She followed the mountain ridge from Mount Borah for about 12 miles before it ended, and she entered the skies over the vast savanna. And that’s exactly where she would be most at risk
As Ewa Wisnierska’s GPS and tracking log ticked, tracking her progress, two thunderstorm clouds appeared in front of her, one larger than the other. She and her teammates had taken off roughly an hour after many other pilots, and they had passed far beyond the clouds.
That left three paragliders directly en route towards the storm clouds: Ewa, an Austrian friend of hers, and a Chinese fellow paraglider who was an expert in his field for a decade. The three of them were fairly confident that they could dodge the menacing clouds. But now they were isolated.
Many other paragliders behind and around Ewa Wisnierska and her two colleagues were put off by the clouds. They identified the risk and decided to call it quits. They decided then and there that it would be better to land than to risk navigating through the storm.
Ewa was gliding and trying to avoid the clouds at the same time. She knew that if she flew under them, she could get sucked up, so she tried to steer around, and that’s when the unthinkable happened.
In a matter of moments, the weather changed with a snap. The smaller cloud was suddenly engulfed and swallowed by the larger one, merging into a tremendous cumulonimbus cloud looming over the plains. It was now a massive storm system, 12 miles across.
Few moments later, her Austrian friend somehow managed to escape and she also landed on a farmhouse nearby. Although after landing, he looked upwards and realised that ewa was in huge trouble now.
Inside the cumulonimbus cloud, Ewa was strapped into her paraglider, hurtling upward like a rocket. The storm was lifting her at a tremendous rate of 60 feet per second, and she was completely and utterly powerless to break out of the wind tunnel. Ewa knew she was heading toward the storm’s eye in its vicious centre because she could hear immense claps of thunder coming from all around her. She prayed to be thrown out of the cloud as she grasped her glider’s straps, however, her vision had become dangerously impaired due to her surroundings.
Ewa could no longer see anything. All around her, it was pitch black, except for constant flashes of lightning, dangerously close to electrocuting her even as she ascended. She could only guess what was happening around her through the colossal rip of the blinding winds.
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