Paragliding from the Aiguille du Midi
by overflow50
As part of Georgia's extended birthday celebrations Andrew and Chaye, along with Grandparents helped to fund a tandem paraglide off the Aiguille du Midi for Georgia. Luckily the weather played ball with a short launch window of nice light winds before the foehn wind rolled over from Italy and shut down flying for the rest of the day.
After Georgia and Gabby headed off both Andrew and Chaye launched and followed them down the Vallee Blanche before landing in Chamonix about 45mins later!
I got the fun of walking back up to the Midi (much harder than it should be at 3800m) before catching the cable car back to town and meeting the others for coffee.
That afternoon we headed back up the Midi to do the tourist thing since Andrew and Chaye hadnt had a chance to look around before we rushed down to the launch.
