Day 9-10
June 6th 2006 Day 9: Queenstown
Action day!
This morning I jumped off a mountain. Fortunately, I was attached to Shayne, who was in turn attached to a parachute of sorts. The takeoff was from a point above the snow line, so that I had to do a kind of careful duck-waddle for take-off to avoid slipping. We paraglided for about ten minutes, did a few probably tame but to me thrilling aerobatics, then landed
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