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"If I squeeze you hard enough, you will not fall," chuckled my cheeky
paragliding instructor Pierre. Looking down at Pierre's skinny knees, I
wasn't so sure.
Running as hard as I could downhill towards the precipice with shale slipping under my trainers, I almost expected to drop off the edge like an over-enthusiastic lemming. The hot air rattled in my ears and my body pulsated with fear.
"Run and whatever you do, don't stop," bellowed Pierre.
Almost at the last second, the large red canopy lifted and with a smooth gust of air, we were swept effortlessly up into the cloudless sky.
Lake Aiguebelette beneath us was emerald in colour, its exquisite glow offset by the darker greens of the surrounding alpines. As we spiralled downwards, I could see jovial canoeists splashing each other and gaggles of children dipping in and out of the water.
Paragliding is one of the activities I had always refused to do, along
with parachuting, hang-gliding and all activities involving, as one of
my companions called them, "a few reinforced plastic bags and pieces of
string". But the feeling of freedom was astounding and as the tips of my
toes touched the grass, I promised myself I would do it again.
As a regular skier, the Alps didn't seem like an obvious choice for a
summer excursion. Without a good dusting of the white stuff, I wasn't
entirely sure what lay ahead.
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