Unsurvivable

I'm listening to a Re:Sound episode on Ewa Wisnierska, a German paraglider who was caught up in a thunderstorm that lifted her to 9,946 meters [32,631 feet]. She survived, frostbitten and unconscious at the highest altitudes. It was, in most respects, an unsurvivable incident. I think I may start searching for these and making a collection.

This hour: two stories of regular old days that started out static and ended up seismic. Birdy by Michael O'Kane (Documentary on One, RTE, 2010) Ewa Wisnierska was an experienced paraglider. She won the world cup in 2005, and a training run for the same competition two years later began as a routine exercise.