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In 1971, teen survived 3,000m plane fall and 11 days alone in Amazon rainforest
On that fateful Christmas Eve in 1971, Juliane Koepcke faced a harrowing ordeal as her plane plummeted into the unforgiving rainforest. Awakening injured and disoriented, she embarked on an arduous ten-day journey through the jungle, battling starvation and her injuries. Just when hope seemed lost, local men found her and delivered her back to safety. Heartbreakingly, her mother perished in the crash, yet Koepcke's resolve to remember her remains unbroken.
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