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India's Games Ground the World's Paragliders

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Oct 11, 2010
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From September through November, India's steep Himachal Pradesh valleys on the edge of the Himalayas offer some of the most spectacular paragliding on earth, with hot air rising and forming thermal currents in vertical columns that lift participants hundreds of meters into the air.

But hundreds of paragliders from as far away as Britain, Russia, Germany …

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