Jon Elson wrote: > LeeE wrote: > >>Little to do with flying but if speed is life, and altitude is >>life-insurance (old joke), last respects to Edmund Hillary, and >>belated last respects to Tenzing Norgay, for being the first people >>to get to that altitude by foot. > > If you want a flying altitude record, check out Eva "Birdy" > Wisnierska, a (the?) German hang glider champion. During a > competition, she got sucked into a thunderstorm and was lifted > to, I believe, 426xx feet, and SURVIVED. She trimmed her glider > to turn away from the cell and descend when she realized she > couldn't get out of the updraft and was going to lose > conciousness. About 10 minutes later she was back at 20xxx feet > and came to, and put the glider into a steeper descent to get > back to warmer altitudes. She had to have skin grafts on her > nose and one hand due to frostbite, but didn't lose anything. > Her portable GPS recorded the whole flight. Correction, she was at 326xx feet for nearly 20 minutes. Still amazing, many have died at that kind of altitude.
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