my best flight ever(paragliding)

incredible flight - tram up to Birg, just below the schilthorn, hiked down to cloudbase, launched, thermalled on this knife-edge ridge for like 10 minutes, flew out over at like '1000 above the murren launch, then crossed the valley to the other cliffs and flew there, right below the eiger jungfrau etc, unbelievable.
not the longest flight, only like 30 minutes, but so super epic best flight i've ever had. also liz(my wife) was with me in the air on a tandem with Beni from chillout paragliding based in interlaken, i highly recommend them! liz was doing some sweet wingovers and a small SAT it was a great flight for her.

SHOT LIST:
1:55 - launch
4:30 - see the thermal
4:50 - begin thermalling right over this knife-edge ridge
(stay in lift for like 10 minutes)
12:00 - LIZ & Beni(instructor) do set of sweet wingovers
14:20 - around this point start hitting bumpy air
19:11 - way up over Murren and cliff, about 1000' over the town and almost 3000' over the landing spot.
19:45 - commit to crossing the valley
22:40 - reach the other side of the valley
29:32 - base jumper in a wingsuit opens his canopy near me, just below my elevation(orange chute, right in the middle of the screen)
31:25 - landing
32:35 - kiss LIZ

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• paragliding
• switzerland
• birg
• flying
• murren
• lauterbrunnen
• alps
• thermal
• schilthorn
• advance
• advanceparagliders
• chilloutparagliding
• countourhd
• 720p
• gimmelwald

[swampymaan]

nice flight...really a god one...at 19:00 you are over mürren...gimmelwald is bit further down...but anyway that was a nice one...you should come in april...than the thermals start...greetz

[jaredralphstanley]

@swampymaan yeah my bad, just fixed it thanks for the heads-up

[TheAwinzer]

why always holding the raisers?

[jaredralphstanley]

@TheAwinzer not sure, didn't notice it until the vids. i think it was bc the harness wasn't back enough, or just a bad habit...

[iansoreta]

what kind of camera is this, a fish eye lens ?

[jaredralphstanley]

@iansoreta this is a contour HD camera, shot at 60fps at 720p.

contour.com

[TheMaincraneguy]

thanks for not playing some annoying sound track and letting us hear the wind as you did!!

[gmtr96]

Spectacular. How life should be lived, i want to be like this when I'm old enough!!!

[particlesofenergy]

I have just recently become aware of this. I am interested in it for my own project (paramotoring). But this video just embodies everything that seems to be amazing about it. This has got to be one of the best and most free feelings in the world... Man I wanna learn to do this so bad!

[dillonbrian]

Brilliant.

[RDJim]

Great looking video. I can't believe I watched the whole thing. Beautiful area. Could you imagine having those cliffs in your back yard as in 19:40 ?  Crazy fun place.

[The10secondslater]

This looks really fun (: how does one get into this?

[justatubeyou]

@TheMaincraneguy I agree so much! Why not leave the ambient sounds so the viewer can get a better idea of what the experience was really like? If we really need thumping techno while we watch the video, we can fire up some sorta media player and do so.

[Conway79]

It's my dream to one day try this.

[brostorm598]

darn... im only 16 but i have a crapy minimum wage job ($7.25/hour)... im saving up 11 grand for a paramotor...after i can afford my own place that is :( Going to take me forever!