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Left at Corvin Flat: How a Paraglider Appeared 4,000 Feet Below
Left at Corvin Flat: How a Paraglider Appeared 4,000 Feet Below
Fear of the impossible: a paraglider tied with orange surveyor's cord sits intact on a forty-foot ice embankment at 4,200 feet - nearly 4,000 feet below its Corvin Ridge launch. The glider’s GPS log shows a sharp altitude drop from 6,400 to 5,900 feet in under ninety seconds, and the pilot’s whereabouts go silent for forty-four hours. How did a certified, methodical pilot and his undamaged glider end up separated by impossible geometry and a sealed winter plateau?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a Tuesday afternoon…
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