Pete is a crazy. His
idea of fun is climbing to the top of a mountain and launching himself off
on the wind on a paraglider - a kind of parachute thing - more like a wing
- that you dangle under. Goes everywhere doing it, Mayrhofen, Laragne & Chamonix
in the Alps, Piedrahita & Ager in Spain, The Blorange, Merthyr and Hay
Bluff in South Wales. His glider is an Boomerang Sport which gets him flying
at 58 kph. In the summer, in Spain he gets into massive thermals
rising in the centre area at 8 metres a second which took him up from hill
top height to cloud base at 13,000ft in a couple of minutes. His best cross
country flights are 75 and 80Km. |
Pete's
a winter crazy too. He redicovered skiing nine years ago and has a distinct
sort of laid-back Lee Marvin drunken skiing style which greatly amuses
precise Alpine Skiers. He is a bit of a reckless one, learning on red and
black runs before considering unlearning all his bad habits via a skiing
lesson. He's starting to get the hang of some of the bigger moghul runs.
In Chamonix he can even ski in the morning and paraglide off the Aiguille de Midi in the afternoon. When in the seat at Tantra he divides his time
(after admin duties) between working with Macs and designing
web sites and graphics. |
