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Can you imagine being a thousand feet above an 8,000m mountain on a paraglider? It makes my heart beat faster just thinking about it. Knowing that if you get it wrong you will be swept over the back towards a jungle of peaks that stretch far into the Tibetan Plateau. Knowing the seriousness of the situation and being pilots we can perhaps understand why Antoine Girard said he “thought of nothing”, that it was “a perfect moment”, and that he was “just flying” when he reached 8,407m in the Karakoram in July. When things get serious in flying we tend to focus on “just flying” – not enjoying it, not shouting with joy, not taking in the view. We just fly. You might be a 10-hour pilot or a thousand-hour veteran…