A paraglider was sucked into a cumulonimbus cloud climbing at up to 20 meters per second to an altitude of 10,000 meters. She lost consciousness due to hypoxia, but regained consciousness after about 45 minutes, and landed still covered in ice after a 3 1/2 hour flight. Cloud suck is a phenomenon commonly known in paragliding and hang gliding where pilots experience significant lift due to a thermal under the base of cumulus clouds, especially towering cumulus and cumulonimbus.
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