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Additionally, Bohnsack et al found that the number of paragliding accidents reduced in comparison with other aerial and motorcycle accidents. Schulze et al reported that accidents have a tendency to decline in number as years passed away. In this study we found the increased number of paragliding accidents is correlated with the increasing number of flights. P<0.05 was considered as statistically significant.

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All analyses were performed with SPSS 15.0 for Windows ®. Paragliding injuries without hospital or accident reports and happened outside of the Fethiye region were excluded. Since the records did not contain either the number of flights until the year of 2007 or patterns and paths of the flights until the year of 2010, records of 20 were utilized for statistical evaluation. Permission must be obtained from the Ministry of Justice to assess the paragliding accident reports that have been delivered to the district public prosecutor.ĭata about the number, patterns and paths of the flights were obtained primarily from Turkey Paragliding Association and Fethiye Guc Birligi Turizm Tanitma Ticaret Limited Company. Moreover, autopsy reports of 18 deaths were obtained. A data sheet consisting of demographic data, physical and radiological findings, characteristics of flights, time of accident (take-off, mid-air or landing) and accident reports of the 64 accidents was composed. The severity of traumas that patients were exposed was classified as minor (no need for hospitalization), serious (need for hospitalization) and mortal. The philosophy behind the wing is to make a glider that is light and durable – but also offers performance.Eighty-two patients who were injured in 64 paragliding accidents between August 2004 and September 2011 were reviewed from judicial medical reports and data from three hospitals at the Fethiye region. The Everest is a lightweight paraglider aimed at experienced hike-and-fly pilots, climbers and mountaineers. U-Turn have announced their latest hike-and-fly glider.

U-Turn announce the hike-and-fly Everest.

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Tandem from Mt Elbrus: with Babu Sunuwarīabu Sunuwar conquered the roof of Europe when he flew a tandem off the summit of Mount Elbrus in July, with passenger Natalia Safonova.

He was in the area acclimatising ahead of a bid to complete a traverse of Lhotse (8,516m) and Everest (8,848m). Steck, 40, died after falling while climbing on Nuptse (7,861m), according to reports. Ueli Steck, the pioneering mountaineer and paraglider pilot, has died in a climbing accident in the Everest region of Nepal.

Ueli Steck dies in fall in Everest region.

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Read their profiles on National Geographic The result will be revealed in February next year. Under the rules of the vote, you can vote once a day until 18 January 2012. Readers can vote for their favourite – we’re voting Babu! – at the National Geographic website. They have been nominated as Adventurers of the Year by National Geographic, one of the world’s best-known magazines.

They then flew 25km cross country to land near Namche Bazaar before spending the next six weeks hiking, flying and kayaking to sea level at the Bay of Bengal.

The film of their flight won the Icare d’Or at the Coupe Icare 2011īabu Sunuwar and Lakpa Tseri Sherpa climbed and flew from the summit of Everest on. The two pilots who flew from the summit of Mount Everest earlier this year are up for an award from National Geographic magazine.īabu and Lakpa above Everest. Photo: Babu Sunuwar/Lakpa Tshering Sherpa Babu Sunuwar on the summit of Everest at 8.50am, shortly before his flight from the summit.