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SPEAKER_03: Hello. From Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan and this is Womanica. This month we're talking about adventurers. Women who refuse to be confined. They push the boundaries of where a woman could go and how she could get there. On Christmas Day, 1971, a young girl woke up under a canopy of dense green trees. Just hours before she'd been above the tree line, hurtling from the wreckage of a plane cleaved in two midair. She was alone and 11 days later, she'd emerged from the jungle the sole survivor of the deadliest lightning strike disaster in aviation history. Meet Yuliani Diller. Though Yuliani may have been stranded in the jungle, she knew the environment intimately. 17 years earlier in 1954, she'd been born to two zoologists, Hans Wilhelm and Maria Kupke. They met while studying biology in Germany. In the 1950s, they moved to Peru to continue their work in one of the most biologically diverse environments on the planet. In Lima, they had Yuliani. When she was 14 years old, the Kupkes moved to an abandoned patch of forest in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. At first, Yuliani wasn't thrilled. She had friends at school and the prospect of moving into dense forest after living in Lima was less than ideal. But then she saw a panguana. The research station her parents built sat at the edge of the Uyapiche's river. Countless trees, reptiles, fish, monkeys, and birds called the area home. The family lived together in a wooden hut propped up on stilts. Hans Wilhelm and Maria studied the forest. Yuliani was homeschooled from the textbooks and homework she received by mail. Yuliani developed her own love for the jungle. She caught butterflies, memorized the chirps of certain birds and insects. Her parents taught her the fundamentals of survival in the wilderness, how to disinfect a wound with kerosene, that piranhas were most dangerous in shallow water, and if she was ever lost, to find moving water and follow it downstream. Yuliani lived at panguana for about two years before educational authorities required her to go back to school to finish her studies. Maria accompanied her daughter to Lima. They planned to fly back to panguana to spend the holidays with Hans Wilhelm. Yuliani and Maria boarded L'Anse flight 508 on Christmas Eve, 1971. About 25 minutes after takeoff, the plane entered a thunderstorm. It began to shake. Then, a flash of white surrounded the plane. Yuliani suddenly found herself spiraling through the air, still strapped to her seat. The treetops below her, she thought, looked like heads of broccoli. Then, darkness. When she woke up, Yuliani was underneath the seat bench. She remained there all night. Slowly, she began to understand. She'd survived a plane crash, and she was alone. Frogs croaked. Insects buzzed around her. These were familiar sounds. She realized she was in the jungle. She wasn't far from home. Yuliani got to her feet. Her collarbone was broken, her knee ached, and she had deep gashes on her arms and legs. Her eyes were swollen, and worst of all, she'd lost her glasses. She could barely see in front of her, but she could walk. She managed to keep one open-toed sandal with her in the crash. Now, she used it to prod the ground to find her way forward. It was the wet season, and rain poured into the thick leaves above, dampening any hope of making a fire. There was no fruit in sight. Yuliani walked through stifling humidity swarms of insects and poisonous snakes, over barbed stingrays and gnarled roots. She made a promise to herself that if she survived this, she'd dedicate her life to a meaningful cause, something that would benefit nature and humanity. Finally, her shoe hit the ground, and she heard the sound she'd been waiting for. Splash. She dipped her foot in, letting the current push her toes forward. She'd found moving water. As she followed it downstream, Yuliani stumbled upon a small hut with a can of gasoline inside. She used it to clean her wounds and decided to take shelter there for the night. The next morning, she awoke to voices. She'd been found. Workers fed her and took her to a nearby village, where she was flown to safety. There, after surviving a 10,000-foot fall and an 11-day solo journey through the Amazon, she reunited with her father. Yuliani emerged as the sole survivor of L'Anse flight 508. Her mother, Maria, did not survive. Much to Yuliani's dismay, her story attracted sensationalist media attention. In 1972, Life magazine reported blatant lies, that she'd made a raft of vines and branches to escape. A German weekly published images of her eating cake and a piece of bread. A German weekly published images of her eating cake in the middle of the jungle, waiting arrogantly for aid. In 1974, an Italian biopic depicted her as hysterical and helpless. As a result, Yuliani withdrew from the spotlight. Contrary to popular stories, she still loved the jungle. As she'd later explain, the jungle caught me and saved me. She made good on the promise she'd made on her journey. She devoted herself to Panguana. She and her father worked to protect the forest from clearing, hunting, and colonization. She researched a graduate thesis on butterflies and a doctoral dissertation on bats. When her father died, she took over as Panguana's director. The research station originally covered 445 acres. Today, it covers 4,000. All month, we're talking about adventurers. For more information, find us on Facebook and Instagram at Womanica Podcast. Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister and co-creator. As always, we'll be taking a break for the weekend. Talk to you on Monday.
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