A paraglider has shared the terrifying moment he cheated death with ‘one second’ to spare after getting tangled up in his wires
Kevin Philipp posted the heart-stopping clip online, which shows him narrowly escaping what would have likely been a fatal fall.
The video, which was posted online yesterday, shows the acrobatic paraglider getting into difficulty during a descent.The footage shows the paraglider quickly becoming tangled up first in his wing, then tangled in cables in high winds. After a struggle he manages to deploy his emergency parachute with a second to spare before he would have hit the ground, crash-landing and shouting “oh my god” in the dramatic clip.
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