Categories: Exploration & Adventure

On Being a Bird: Thoughts from a First Time Paraglider

Tandem paragliding off the top of Bald Mountain was not exactly on my bucket list. Call me crazy, who wouldn’t jump at the chance to float over the Wood River Valley with wild views of every mountain range as far as your eye can see. Isn’t it everybody’s dream to fly? Well, maybe not everyone. I consider myself sporty, an athlete even. But, not your typical adventure girl. I prefer grace to speed, Zen to adrenaline. Paragliding? I was pretty sure that lay outside of my personal thrill meter. But, when asked if I wanted to go, then write about it, I realized that I wasn’t actually worried about hurting myself (tandem paragliding is very, very safe). And when Mike Pfau, Operator of Fly Far In Idaho and Tandem Pilot for Fly Sun Valley said, “It’s the most fun you can have as a human,” I thought: Why not?
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Kim Frank

Kim Frank is an award-winning writer and editor whose work is published across the globe. Whether writing about an expedition to explore the HMHS Britannic, setting the speed record for an electric vehicle, or documenting the human-elephant conflict in northeast India, Kim’s eye for story and gifted prose brings conservation, exploration, and adventure to light.

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