You can find the various stories on the Oz Report web site:
http://ozreport.com. From one:

A German paraglider is being hailed as "the luckiest woman in the
world" after surviving a violent storm cell that sucked her higher than Mount
Everest during a flight over northern NSW.


Ewa Wisnierska, 35, spent 40 minutes unconscious while being carried to a height
of about 9,946 metres, where she was pounded by hail, narrowly avoided lightning
and was covered in ice.


"I was just praying, please, please put me somewhere away from the cloud," Ms
Wisnierska said from her hotel room, where she was resting her bruised and
frostbitten body.


Catapulted upwards like a "leaf", she was thrust higher and higher into the
atmosphere at speeds of up to 20 metres per second.


As she climbed above the height of the 8,850m Mt Everest, near to the cruising
height of jumbo jets, Ms Wisnierska noticed ice forming on her sunglasses and on
her instruments, which kept track of her violent ride.


She could hear lightning around her but was helpless to do anything and knew her
chances of survival were "almost zero".


"I knew I can only have luck, I can't do anything - and I got it."


At that height, temperatures can drop to minus 40C or 50C.


Eventually Ms Wisnierska lost consciousness.


Doctors told her later that blacking out may have saved her life, because her
heart and body slowed down.


More than 40 minutes later, and at a height of 6,900 metres, she woke to find
herself still stuck in the storm, surrounded by darkness and with her gloves
frozen.


"It was amazing because the glider was still flying - I don't know how is it
possible because there was hail everywhere, into the glider, into my harness and
it was still flying....", Ms Wisnierska said.


"I was shaking and everything, but I thought I just need to fly straight and get
out of this cloud.


"I thought I need to go down just to warm up."


Despite being dazed and confused from a lack of oxygen, Ms Wisnierska turned her
attention to getting back to ground after eventually escaping the storm clouds.


"I thought 'where could I land?'," Ms Wisnierska said.


"I couldn't see any road or anything, but then I saw a small farm, and tried to
fly towards it, and landed very safe."


Unable to gather her thoughts to call for help, she waited alone for several
minutes before her crew called on the radio, and were able to locate her, about
60km from her launch site.


They found her still covered with ice.