When I was in the air and I was taking the thermals, I knew that basically I had two choices. One was fly over a pass back towards interlaken to meet my friend, or the other one was fly over into the high mountains and explore the huge big cliffs, which is something really special that you can do with the paraglider. I'm Paragleta.

I know at one point or another that all of us have daydreamed about being able to just fly from wherever we are.

Just standing in our yard, standing out in the woods, sitting at our desk, whatever you're doing,

just say, you know what, I'm going to walk outside and just fly somewhere.

And paragliding seems about the closest thing to that in the real world and this sport of combining that

with like backpacking and backcountry exploration is just amazing imagine having a campsite

and then packing it up pack on your sleeping bag and instead of you know just putting it on your

back but putting on your back and then

just flying away how how epic is that and so today's episode we're going to be talking about that and

by the way my name's mason i'm the host of the adventure sports podcast but this episode is actually

a throwback episode from a few years ago with the previous host, Kurt.

He just does such a great job that I love throwing it back to these older episodes.

But we're going to be exploring that sport today of paragliding and kind of some of the

capabilities that it gives you. So without further ado, we're really just going to jump right into it.

So here's the episode.

Hey, today I have Nick Nannans on the horn with us.

And Nick is, he is a paragliding enthusiast extraordinaire.

Nick is from New Zealand, from the South Island.

He's currently in Switzerland, that's where I caught up with him today.

And he was in the 2015 and 2017 Red Bull X-Alps.

He holds a New Zealand distance record. He's been flying, paragliding,

about 10 years. He's a meteorologist, and prior to that was an engineer, which those two things

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