The Closest Experience to Flying Like a Bird

Paragliding is a sport of assisted human flight.
A paraglider is small enough to be stowed in an oversized backpack and light enough to carry on your shoulders.

It's so portable you can take it almost anywhere.
A paraglider is a motorless, inflatable wing, made of rip-stop nylon and fixed with Kevlar lines that secure a pilot's harness.

The pilot sits in the harness and launches the vehicle by foot, running off inclines, hills or mountains.
He or she steers the wing by weight shift and application of brakes that changes the shape of the rear edge of the wing.
The function of a paraglide is to soar on wind currents.

The record for staying aloft is over 11 hours, and the distance record, 262 miles (420km).
The average flight for the every day enthusiast is about 3 hours, with heights reaching 8,000 feet (3,500 meters).


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