Chris Gursky nearly died hang gliding. No, that’s not an exaggeration. There’s a viral video to prove it. In November 2018, while vacationing in Interlaken, Switzerland, with his wife, Gursky’s ...

The phrase is often used by people who soar high in the sky in non-motorized lightweight aircraft. These adventurists hang gliders and paragliders, known as pilots, challenge gravity from a 600 feet ...

Friends and neighbors say Arthur Simoneau represented the best parts of Topanga, a tight-knit bohemian mountain community with a reputation for welcoming the free-spirited. Hang-gliding friends say he ...

The closest Rich Selgrad has ever gotten to achieving his lifelong dream of flying like a bird is when he is up in his hang glider or paraglider. “I’ve been wingtip to wingtip with a bald eagle,” said ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Minnesota isn't a typical place you think of for hang gliding; usually you need a mountain or cliff. But Eagle Hang Gliding in Lake City takes a different approach to getting you ...

VAIL – What goes up must come down, but not always in the conventional sense. Hang gliding used to be a perfectly acceptable way to get off the mountain, Dave Gorsuch said. For years, ski patrollers ...

Milpitas, CA - The fingerprints of the man killed in a hang-gliding crash are being used to confirm his identity, the Santa Clara County coroner said Tuesday. A day after the deadly plummet from ...

CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) -- Most days when the winds are right and he's not working, you will find Cumberland resident Jim Rowan soaring the skies of the tri-state region aboard his single-wing hang ...

It makes sense, when floating around Steptoe Butte, that Icarus would have wanted to defy gravity, impugn the gods and challenge the sun to soar closer to the ionosphere. Maybe he wanted to find the ...

One by one, my three children soared above the wind-swept sand dunes, overcome with jubilation as they took to the sky on colorful 30-foot-wide hang gliders. As they experienced flight for themselves, ...

Michele Holland ’87 needed to fulfill her one-credit physical education requirement (which was a thing for college students some 30 years ago). One day on campus, she saw a flyer for the University of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A helicopter drops water on a fire near Topanga Village along Topanga Canyon Road on Wednesday. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times ...