“What can go wrong?” I ask my instructor, Luca, as he straps me into a harness attached to a huge parachute, looking over a mountain edge.
“A lot of things in life can go wrong,” he smiles, which does little to calm my nerves.
Stay In The Buzz
“What can go wrong?” I ask my instructor, Luca, as he straps me into a harness attached to a huge parachute, looking over a mountain edge.
“A lot of things in life can go wrong,” he smiles, which does little to calm my nerves.
Luca reassures me he has been a paragliding instructor for 10 years, doing 500 rides a year, and that hiking is more dangerous – probably not my English countryside hikes – as he straps himself in behind me near the summit of Saulire, a mountain 2,740 metres high in the Savoie region.

“The most important thing you have to do is keep your skis straight for take off,” he says, before I question the big rock jutting out of the mountain face directly below us. “Don’t worry, we’ll be in the sky before we hit that.”