Photos from the World
Paragliding Championships held in
Manilla, Australia Feb 24 – Mar 9, 2007
Courtesy of
Marc, Lan & Seattle
Paragliding Team
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11206 Iss-Hobart Rd SE
Issaquah, WA 98027
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Tom McCune Seattle Paragliding Click on Tom McCune Mt. Rainier in background |
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World Champions Bruce Goldsmith
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World Champion Nation Czech Republic |
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Top 10 Overall |
Top 5 Women |
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1 GOLDSMITH, Bruce,
(Airwave Magic Fr3) GBR 4178 2 CARON, Jean-Marc,
(Niviuk Icepeak 2) FRA 4161 3 MCCUNE, Thomas, (MAC 4 AEBI, Andy, (Advance Omega) CHE 3894 5 OHLIDAL, David, (Axis Mercury) CZE
3824 6 7 ZIOLKOWSKI, Krzysztof, (Axis
Mercury) POL 3741 8 COHN, Josh, (UP Targa 3) 9 BRAUNER, Tomas, (MAC 10 VALIC, Aljaž, (MAC |
1 SLIVOVA, 2 WILLIAMS, Viv, (Gin
Boomerang Sport Proto) AUS 3152 3 GAW, Harmony, (Airwave
Magic 4) NZL 2723 4 OLEXINA, 5 BULGAKOW, Klaudia, (Gin Boomerang
Sport) POL 2647 |
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Top 5 Nations |
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Paraglider hangs upside-down in
tree for three days
March 07, 2007 12:00am
Article from: “The Australian”
AN Italian
paraglider was recovering in hospital yesterday after crashing in high winds into
amountain forest - and hanging upside-down in a tree for three days.
Antonio Montagno, 47, crashed last Thursday after
launching himself from a height of 820m on Monte Mignaio near Florence.
He was found on Sunday at a height of 1240m in
the Vallombrosa forest, dangling upside-down at the top of a giant beech tree,
with his right leg trapped in the tangled ropes of his glider.
Yesterday, Mr Montagno, an experienced
paraglider, was in intensive care at Careggi hospital in Florence, suffering
from hypothermia, dehydration and kidney failure. Doctors operated on the badly
damaged muscle tissue of his leg and said they were confident he would survive.
Carlo Nozzoli, the head doctor at Careggi
hospital, said Mr Montagno had been found just in time. "People can
survive three to four days without eating, but not without drinking," he
said.
Mr Montagno, a Sicilian microbiologist, lives in
Tuscany with his wife Antonella and their four-year-old twins, Elisa and
Davide.
Ms Montagno said when she heard her husband was
missing, she vowed to "punch him on the nose when they find him, to make
sure he doesn't frighten me like this ever again". When she saw him
grimacing in pain on the way to the hospital she had "simply given thanks
that he was still alive".
"The twins will see their father again, and
that is all that matters," she said.
Ms Montagno had told friends: "He's probably
stuck up a tree somewhere, but he's still alive, I just know it."
Mr Montagno's brother Sebastiano said: "When
he gets out of hospital I'm going to tell him to give up gliding and get a
mountain bike. I don't suppose for a moment he'll pay the slightest
attention."