I heard a fascinating story on YouTube today! In 1971, 17 year old Juliane Koepcke’s plane was ripped apart by lightning above the Peruvian jungle. She survived the fall, breaking her collar bone and rupturing the blood vessels in her eyes. Over the next 11 days, she applied survival skills her scientist-explorer parents taught her. Despite a growing parasitic infection, she found her way to rescue and (many years later) returned to the same research site her parents oversaw. She is still alive today.
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