Paragliding

Seven Turkish female pilots of one of the world's best-known centers for paragliding offer tourists the opportunity to fly high above the Mediterranean landscape of southwestern Turkey.

Mountain Rescue Service teams have helped two injured paragliders, the Mountain Rescue Service told Focus News Agency. The two men were injured in paragliding accidents near Dupnitsa. The rescuers have conducted two operations. One of the men is a Japanese. Both were taken to hospital in good condition.

A video circulating on the internet shows the last moments of a Turkish paragliding pilot and a Pakistani paraglider as they plunged to their deaths in a tandem paraglide accident on April 15.

1000 meters is the length of the route that participants can measure their strengths. In order to complete successfully, competitors will have to rely not only on training but also on a perfect judgment.

The weather will be mostly sunny today, sometimes with increased cloudiness mainly in the northern and western regions. This is the forecast of the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH), quoted by FOCUS News Agency.

An 87-year-old local woman has impressed social media with her paragliding skills in the Aegean province of Muğla, Doğan News Agency reported on May 21. 

A 39-year-old Czech national lost his life in a paragliding accident on Thursday in the region of Pella in northern Greece.

According to reports on Friday, he launched, along with four others paragliders, from a cliff in Aghios Athanasios. After he failed to land with the others, a search was launched and his body was found hours later in a forested area.

Spanish paraglider Horacio Llorens has fullfilled his lifetime ambition to paraglide through the Aurora Borealis.

He is one of the top acro-paragliders in the world and for many years he had been trying to make his dream true and flight through the elusive northern lights.

BELGRADE - Serbian contestants won gold in the men's and bronze in the women's category in the final round of the 2014 Paragliding Accuracy World Cup in Serdivan, Turkey.

In the competition held on October 17-19, Dragan Popov from Vrsac shared the first place with George Cotet of Romania, the Aeronautical Union of Serbia (VSS) released on its website on Wednesday.

Turkey’s biggest air sports festival kicked off in the Mediterranean town of Fethiye’s Ölüdeniz with paragliders from around the world participating in the event.

Around 500 air sports enthusiasts from 40 countries are competing in various disciplines at the 15th Ölüdeniz Air Games Festival, which is held every October.