>> ^silvercord:
It's called parahawking: http://www.videosift.com/video/Skydiving-With-Hawks-In-Nepal


I'm not sure it is, since you linked to paragliding and hawks and that's not what this is about.

Regardless, I'm curious whether they had the bird follow the plane during the entire climb (tiring), or whether they threw the bird out of a moving aircraft (potentially terrifying).

Also, let's continue this trend with other animals. I nominate Octopuses.

Parahawking involves skydiving while specially-trained birds of prey swarm around you, including vultures, eagles, and falcons. It’s available in Nepal courtesy of a bird rescue group called Himalayan Raptor Rescue. Hypothetically, it should lead to a superior paragliding experience:

Birds of prey have a natural instinct to conserve energy wherever and whenever possible. During a flight, a bird will burn more energy than it would if it was just sitting in a tree, this means it has to eat to replace the used energy. Sometimes birds will travel long distances to find food. To conserve energy whilst flying, birds of prey use thermals. Thermals are rising currents of warm air that are created by the sun heating the ground. Birds can gain height and travel long distances without flapping their wings by using thermals. Paragliders also use thermals when they are flying and will often use wild birds to guide them to where the thermals are. Our trained birds are no different, they will find the thermals in order to stay aloft and conserve energy whilst flying. We as paragliders harness their ability to conserve energy by following them as we fly.

Our birds need to be rewarded for guiding us into the thermals. During the flight the passenger will place small morsels of meat onto his gloved hand, the birds will come and gently land on the hand to take the food, and then gracefully fly away to find the next thermal. A perfect symbiotic relationship.

This tandem aerial sport was first developed in 2001, and since then it has joined climbing Mt. Everest and going to that monkey temple as a must-do for anyone visiting Nepal. $150 buys you a 30 minute glide through Parahawking.com.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'baffin, island, canada, climbing, paragliding, skiing' to 'baffin, island, canada, climbing, paragliding, skiing, flying, base' - edited by kulpims

Thanks all

@gwiz665

Hah, yeah you guessed it. I'm not so much of a rabid Thrice fanboy as I used to be since I discovered metal

@EDD

Between snorting coke off a hooker's back and paragliding off mountaintops I just don't have time. Well to be fair I help moderate another forum, frequent some others and am in a sporadically active gaming clan, but no realy I don't have any good excuse

@dag

Yeah sure thing

>> ^jacobrecker:
bucketofhair


wah?

Dupe:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Paraglider-crash-bad-luck-and-a-cool-head

i've never been anywhere that you couldn't drive to so I have no idea how it feels. i've only flown once in a cessna. but I am afraid of heights. or depths, rather. tried paragliding for a while, thought i'd get rid of the fear. i didn't
edit: my advice? get stoned

Tags for this video have been changed from 'eagle, nature, hunt' to 'eagle, nature, hunt, paragliding goat adventures' - edited by sometimes

He definitely shouldn't have been flying in those conditions. Paragliders are inherently quite safe, but only if you're smart about when and where you fly.

The end is funny!

To be absolutely clear in the tags, parachute should be paragliding. There is no parachute in this video.