She fell out of the sky on Christmas Eve. The jungle was only the beginning.

Juliane Koepcke survived a plane breaking apart at 10,000 feet on Christmas Eve, woke up alone in the Peruvian Amazon, and then had to do the only thing more impossible than falling from the sky: walk out.

Koepcke's survival seems like a fantasy because every detail feels invented by a cruel storyteller: Christmas Eve, lightning, a plane coming apart, a girl strapped to a row of seats, one sandal, candy from the wreckage, vultures, maggots, petrol, fishermen who briefly thought she was a river spirit. — Read the rest

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