What exactly is a paraglider?
A paraglider is a foot-launched, ram-air, airfoil canopy, flown and landed with no other energy than the wind, gravity, and the pilot’s muscle power. It gets lift from the wind and sun, providing a way to soar along a ridge or to rise in the warm air of invisible, thermal currents. Paragliders are an advanced evolutionary aircraft that can go places and do things unlike any other vehicle. The equipment is non rigid fabric construction. High-performance fabrics coupled with a growing comprehension of our micro-metrology have permitted the development of this incredible sport. The entire paragliding set (wing, harness, helmet) up weighs less than twenty kilos and easily fits into a backpack.
