3790m Flying from Europe's highest cable car station, Klein Matterhorn, Switzerland, May 2024

#paragliding #parapente #gleitschirm #matterhorn #zermatt #switzerland #alps #glacier
Windy take off with deep snow. Epic panorama with many 4000m high peaks on a perfect spring day and a couple of thermals. Surprisingly strong mountain wind at the landing zone in Zermatt.
Pilots: Evelina, Silvio, Tabea, Tani, Ricardo, Wessel
Camera & Edit: Ricardo, Tabea
Camera 2: Wessel
Ground Crew: Oleg
Music: • Kid Francescoli - "Moo...
Artist: Kid Francescoli
Title: Moon

[@ErLong1800]

What a beautiful flight!

[@ohakuneyachtclub8753]

sensational. What a day !!!!

[@ChrisJewell7333]

Nice…! ❤

[@mblass]

4:28 geht genau so rein wie es sollte mit diesem schönen Lied!

[@crazyangel4109]

Flight 100 launch skills -10

[@ParaParaParagliding]

Most probably you are misjudging the conditions from your comfy warm couch. Tight space, terrain slope with deep snow, big difference in wind speed during the inflation phase, air density, generally the height above sea level and a bit of nervousness all add up.
It’s not quite a beginner's hill 😉

[@crazyangel4109]

@@ParaParaParagliding if you cant handle the conditiond or thé launchsite dont start, explaining thé sitiation does not change the fact that its a really bad launch 😉

[@crazyangel4109]

@@ParaParaParaglidingbit of groundhandeling Will do the trick buddy

[@ParaParaParagliding]

Risk management is the most important factor, not perfection. The conditions weren't easy, but they weren't particularly risky either...
Thanks to regular groundhandling experience, it was easier to judge what and how to try or not to try in such conditions. All attempts and launches were safe.
Again; the conditions up there were not much like what you would typically encounter in groundhandling: Tight space, hitting a cable with the topsail, no wind on the ground but lots of wind in the upper power zone with a significant vertical component caused by the edge in the terrain, snow, high altitude...
But that's OK, you can certainly judge better from your sofa and shout haa-haa like Nelson Muntz from the Simpson's.
We could have simply cut out the scenes. But we wanted to show that it can sometimes be a bit tricky up there. Maybe it will help others to decide whether they want to make the journey to this launch site or not.