RUSSIAN PARAGLIDER RESCUED, ALEXEY UNTRACED POLICE LODGE MISSING

ONE RUSSIAN PARAGLIDER RESCUDE FROM HIMALYAS RANGE NEAR CHAMUNDA HIMACHAL. DAMITRI HE HAVE SPINAL INJURIES ANS HEAVY BLEEDING AND SENT TO HOSPITAL FOR MEDICAL. ANOTHER ALEXY ARSHULOV IS UNTRACED FROM LAST FOUR...

Unauthorized Paragliding in Himalayas, Several Accidents

NP reported yesterday that a paraglider went missing by the name of Alexy. There are no other reports to confirm this. Today thaindian.com reports that two Russian paragliders sustained injury after they crashed...

Flying to save Nepal's vultures

A group of falconry experts and professional paragliding pilots working in Nepal have joined forces in the fight to save Asia's vultures from extinction.  Vulture populations throughout Asia have plummeted...

The Stuff I Didn't Get To -- 2/17/07

"-Think of your own snarky headline, I'm busy being awed-An australian paraglider has to have set some sort of record. Ewa Wisnerka was caught in a storm system that whipped her higher in the atmosphere than the...