Paragliding high above a beautiful landscape is already a bucket list item, but doing it alongside an Egyptian vulture might bump it up to the top of the list. Pioneered by Scott Mason, who has been training birds since he was ten, parahawking consists of a trained vulture or hawk guiding a paraglider through thermals or air pockets in the sky for long, bird-like flights. The pilot or tandem companion holds some meat in a glove and sporadically rewards the bird with it. The Parahawking Project, originally founded in Pokhara, Nepal, and since…
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