She fell 10,000 feet from a plane and woke up in the jungle, the only survivor

hell that the world always thinks”

What saved the 17-year-old was her unusual childhood. Juliane’s parents, zoologists Hans-Wilhelm and Maria Koepcke, ran a research station called Panguana deep in the rainforest, and Juliane grew up there.

“I learned a lot about life in the rainforest, that it wasn’t too dangerous,” she told the BBC  “It’s not the green continue reading …