While it was launched at 3,000 meters above sea level, on Saturday, May 24, from the mountains of Qilian, in northwest China, a paragliding was absorbed by a gigantic storm cloud. In just a few minutes, the man found 8,598 meters above the ground, where the ice temperature is around -40 ° C.
“I felt the lack of oxygen and my oriented hands,” said the paragliding of the local media, reports the Chinese newspaper Global Times.
Despite hypoxia and extreme cold, the man remained aware during the whole flight and communicated by radio. Suffering of serious freezing, it was transported to the hospital indicates the New York Times.
Direction from head to toe
The images of the paragliding body chamber show the wing of their parachute raised by an air flow. His face and clothes are embedded with frost, while he desperately tries to grab the harness.
That day, the Paraglider had not submitted to the robbery plan, nor obtained an authorization to take off, according to the Chinese media, despite its license as a paragliding. An investigation was opened to determine the exact circumstances of the incident.
Source: BFM TV
