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She Fell Nearly 2 Miles, and Walked Away
At 17, biologist Juliane Diller was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon. Fifty years later she still runs Panguana, a research station founded by her parents in Peru.
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A bolt of lightning struck my plane – and I plunged 3,000m into a rainforest
Juliane Diller was 17 when the aircraft she and her mother were on exploded. Of the 92 people on board, Juliane was the only survivor – and it would take her 11 days to walk to safety
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Joe Simpson recounts one of mountaineering’s greatest survival stories
What drives a person to survive when all hope is gone? This climber lived to tell and his harrowing story is still just as powerful 35 years on.
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MY JOURNEY HOME FROM EVEREST
HOW HIS BRUSH WITH DEATH ATOP MOUNT EVEREST-AND THE TOUGH LOVE OF HIS WIFE-GAVE A DALLAS DOCTOR A NEW LEASE ON LIFE.
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My life after death
Beck Weathers’s obsession with climbing almost cost him his marriage and, 26,000ft up on Everest, it nearly claimed his life. Four years on, his body is scarred by frostbite but inside, he tells Ed Douglas, he feels liberated: ‘It’s amazing how functional you can be. Four months after they cut my hands off, I was
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The Real Story of ‘The Revenant’ Is Far Weirder (and Bloodier) Than the Movie
Hugh Glass, the protagonist of the story, never was chased off a cliff, cut a dead horse open for warmth or had a half-Pawnee son. But the frontiersman played by DiCaprio lived a life even more fantastical than any film.
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