Embed from Getty ImagesGerman paraglider Ewa Wisnierska set a world record in 2007, but no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/05/27/Surviving-the-Unsurvivable/The website of the United States Powered Paragliding Association describes what could have happened if the carabiner had slipped just a little more: This pilot was quite close to a catastrophic situation on two fronts...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/01/so-youre-paragliding-one-day-you-look-up-and-see-this/Quilting just wasn't enough. Last September, 101-year old Mary Hardison of Ogden, Utah paraglided with an instructor, thus becoming the oldest woman to ever do so. Her motivation? Keeping her young, freewheeling son in h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/101-year-old-woman-becomes-worlds-oldest-paraglider/Officers of the Palm Bay Police Department in Flor... ...da keep an eye on a large area by using motorized paragliders ! Police Chief Bill Berger says they are a way f... ...eing a woman who had [died] close to her car. The paragliders
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/paragliding-cops/Alberto Ocampo was paragliding from San Felix to Antioquia, Colombia when he became entangled in power lines 350 meters above ground. Fog and cold temperatures hampered the rescue mission, but civil defence forces even...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/01/21/paraglider-trapped-on-power-lines/