{"id":3172,"date":"2025-03-18T12:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2025-03-18T12:35:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:35:21","slug":"how-terrified-would-you-be-launching-yourself-off-a-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3172","title":{"rendered":"How terrified would you be launching yourself off a cliff?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I came across these paragliders, down by the coast a couple of weeks ago, and watched in awe as they took off around me. I like to keep my feet firmly on the ground so could only admire them as they jumped off the cliff, with only a big sheet to keep them from crashing into the rocks and sea below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of them were quite experienced by the look of them, although one person was being shown how to operate the paraglider itself, by going on a tandem flight with an instructor. Although it look like they are being dragged off the edge in this photo, they were in fact both willing to go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quite interestingly there was some low hung cloud a bit further up and the instructor flew the paraglider into and out the clouds again. I’m not sure if I would have felt better in the cloud and not seeing the ground far away beneath me, rather than out in the open!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I hung around for a while taking photos, but then remembered that, when I photographed the open sea water swimmers<\/a> in Ireland, they were desperate for me to go for a swim with them, so I decided to leave in case the paragliders made the same offer…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

:DK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All photos: \u00a9Douglas Kurn. All moral rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across these paragliders, down by the coast a couple of weeks ago, and watched in awe as they took off around me. I like to keep my feet firmly on the ground so could only admire them as they jumped off the cliff, with only a big sheet to keep them from crashing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[178,185,104],"tags":[154,4,184,5,14,183],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-life","category-documentary-photography","category-reportage","tag-documentary-photography","tag-douglas-kurn","tag-paraglider","tag-photography","tag-reportage","tag-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2y0F3-Pa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3192,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions\/3192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}