Flying down

The race leaders are now preparing to fly down. Someone asked ‘How quickly can they get down?’ The answer is - really quickly! A good pilot can spiral a paraglider down the way at 10-15 metres a second. That means pilots could fly from the summit to the goal field in less than five minutes.

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