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IT’S
ON CHRISTMAS EVE 1971, I’VE ALWAYS THE LANDING THE PLANE
17-YEAR-OLD JULIANE HATED FLYING! I’M WOrRIED BROKE UP IN
KOEPCKE WAS FLYING WITH ABOUT... MIDAIR AFTER
HER MOTHER TO PUCAlLPA SPIRALING OUT
IN PERU. THEY WERE GOING OF CONTROL.
TO SPEND CHRISTMAS WITH THE LAST
JULIANE’S FATHER, HANS. THING JULIANE
ABOUT AN HOUR AFTER REMEMBERED
THE PLANE ToOK OfF WAS WHIRLING
FROM THE CAPITAL CITY OF THROUGH
LIMA, IT FLEW INTO HEAVY THE AIR
CLOUDS AND STARTED AS THE
SHAKING. SUdDENLY, GROUND CAME
two A BOLT OF LIGHTNING HIT SPInNING
THE AIRCRAFT, AND IT WENT
survival INTO A NOSEDIVE. PEOPLE TOWARD HER.
stories STARTED SCREAMING AND
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
in one! FLEW AROUND THE CABIN.

JUST WHAT
WHEN JULIANE WOKE UP THE NEXT JULIANE HElLO…? DESPITE STIlL I ALWAYS WANTED
MORNING, SHE WAS ALONE—AND HAD NO FoOD, AM I THE ONLY BEING IN SHOCK, FOR CHRISTMAS…
STIlL STRApPED TO HER SEAT. NO ToOLS, NO SURVIVOR? JULIANE HAD
WAY OF MAKING THE SENSE TO
IS IT SAFE A FIRE, NO SEARCH THROUGH
THE WRECKAGE.
TO TAKE OfF MY MAPS, AND
SEAT BELT YET? NO COMPAsS. SHE FOUND SOME
LoOKING FOR CANDY AND
HER MOTHER, THE CHRISTMAS
SHE SoON CAKE THAT SHE
REALIZED THAT HAD BROUGHT
SHE WAS AlL FOR HER DAD.
ALONE, LOST IN
THE JUNGLE.
AMAZINGLY, JULIANE’S INJURIES
WERE MINOR: A BROKEN
COlLARBONE, A SWOlLEN
RIGHT EYE, AND LARGE CUTS
TO HER ARMS AND LEGS.

JULIANE SET OfF BRAVELY THE NEXT DAY, SHE FOUND A CReEK AND THE CHRISTMAS CAKE LASTED
INTO THE JUNGLE, BEGAN TO WADE DOWNSTREAM. WITHOUT THReE DAYS. NOW WITHOUT FoOD,
REMEMBERING HER DAD’S A MACHETE TO CUT THROUGH THE FOREST, SHE DRANK THE MURKY RIVER
ADVICE: HEAD DOWNHIlL JULIANE WAS FORCED TO WADE THROUGH WATER, FIGHTING OfF INSECTS
TO WATER, THEN FOlLOW JUNGLE STREAMS AND SWIM ACROsS AND BLoODSUCKING LeECHES.
A RIVER TO FIND A CAMP FLoODED AREAS INFESTED WITH PIRANHAS SHE OFTEN
OR VIlLAGE. AND CROCODILES. HEARD YUCK!
RESCUE
I WONDER IF PLANES
THE RIpPED LoOK DON’T EVEN THINK ABOVE BUT
IS BACK ABOUT IT—ONE MOVE HAD NO
IN FASHION. AND I’lL TURN YOU WAY TO
INTO A HANDBAG!
SIGNAL
TO THEM.

A FEW DAYS IN,
THE CUT ON JULIANE’S
ARM WAS FUlL OF
WIgGLING MAgGOTS.
FINAlLY, JULIANE REACHED ON THE 10TH DAY, SHE CAME THE LOgGERS TREATED THE LOgGERS EPILOGUE
THE PACHITEA RIVER. HERE SHE ACROsS A HUT. EXHAUSTED HER MAgGOT-INFESTED THEN ToOK THE SOLE
BUILT A CRUDE RAFT OF LOGS AND HUNGRY AFTER NOT WOUNDS BY POURING JULIAnNE ON SURVIVOR OF
TIED TOGETHER WITH VINES EATING FOR DAYS, SHE GASOLINE ON THEM. A SEVEN-HOUR FLIGHT 508,
AND AlLOWED THE CUrRENT CURLED UP AND WAITED CANOE TRIP TO JULIANE RETURNED
TO TAKE HER DOWNSTREAM. FOR HELP. THANKFUlLY, A YOW! THE NEAREST TO GERMANY,
GROUP OF LOgGERS ArRIVED OKAY, GUYS— TOWN, WHERE WHERE, LIKE
AT THE HUT THE NEXT DAY. WE’RE OUT HER PARENTS,
OF HERE! A LOCAL PILOT
IT LoOKS FLEW HER TO SHE BECAME
SO SIMPLE A HOSPITAL A ZoOLOGIST.
ON THOSE FOR SHE NOW
SURVIVOR TREATMENT STUDIES BATS.
SHOWS! AND TO BE
REUNITED
WITH HER
FATHER.

35 MAgGOTS CAME OUT
OF HER ARMS ALONE.
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