Never too old to paraglide
Here’s a great news item. Trudy Bibring, 89 years old and a native Austrian who has been living in Israel for 30 years, paraglides to raise funds for 600 children at risk in childrens’ homes throughout Israel.
Her paragliding adventures began when Bibring, who lives in Netanya, would watch from her apartment window the paragliders jumping off the Netanya cliffs nearby. Netanya is considered the home of paragliding in Israel, as the city’s moderate cliffs plus a stiff offshore breeze provide the right environment for gliders, who are often seen cruising high above the beach, just along the cliff line.
Bibring thought to herself, hmm, that’d be a great stunt for raising money. Given that she’s a proper Austrian lady, she may not have said it just like that, but that was the gist of the idea.
Her friends, say Bibring, are proud and a little bit envious. And she’s still doing it, as seen in this YouTube video taken June 17, just a few weeks ago, from a cliff near Netanya’s Carmel Hotel.
89!
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My husband is one of those alarming adventure types. He’s always into some kind of action sport – either mountain biking, snowboarding, surfing, offroad motorbiking or paragliding.
I remember him leaping off a steep cliff on a paraglider some years ago. It was his first time, and he’d had no training that I could see. After about 30 minutes he yelled down to a friend as he circled above the cliff top – “So how do I land?”
You get used to it gradually. As well as the occasional hospital visits for broken fingers, stitches, torn ligaments, and a range of other – thankfully – minor injuries.
The one thing about these trips is that he gets to go to all sorts of places off the beaten track that most of us never get to see. On a recent offroad motorbike trip to the Negev, he came back with these beautiful pictures.
Makes me almost wish I’d gone with him… yeh right.
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