A powered paraglider is a type of ultralight aircraft that uses a motor in addition to a paraglider wing to fly. This is not the paraglider involved in the January incident. Courtesy Bernard ...

Chinese paraglider Peng Yujiang is lucky to be back on the ground after surviving a powerful updraft that suddenly lifted him into the upper atmosphere above the Qilian Mountains in China’s Gansu ...

A man flying a paraglider crashed Thursday at the Barrow County Airport, according to the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office. The crash occurred shortly after 1 p.m. at the airport located just east of ...

Excitement, altitude, and adrenaline during paragliding can temporarily raise your heart rate and blood pressure.