Ewa Wiśnierska

Ewa Wiśnierska, born Ewa Cieślewicz on 23 December 1971 in Nysa, is a Polish paraglider pilot and a member of the German national paragliding team who has won the Paragliding World Cup on several occasions. She is best known for 14 February 2007 near Manilla, New South Wales, Australia, when she was training for the World Paragliding Championships and was drawn into a cumulonimbus cloud. Her GPS recorded a climb to 10,054 metres, she survived extreme cold, lightning and lack of oxygen, and she landed more than three hours later about 60 kilometres from where she started. The ordeal became the documentary Miracle in the Storm. She lives in Aschau im Chiemgau, Bavaria, where she teaches paragliding.