Paragliding

Many sports throughout the world are well established and well represented throughout the media and the United States, except for paragliding. Paragliding is a wide canopy resembling a parachute that is attached to a person's body by a harness in order to allow them to glide through the air after jumping from or being hauled to a height. Despite not using an engine, paraglider flights can last many hours and cover many hundreds of miles, though flights of one to two hours and covering some tens of miles are more the norm. By skillful exploitation of sources of lift, the pilot may gain height, often climbing to altitudes of a few thousand meters.

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