Let’s get this out of the way right from the jump: The man in this video is alive and well. Still, this is probably not how he wanted his first hang gliding experience to go.
Chris Gursky, a Florida auto-parts manager and photographer, posted the footage of his harrowing hang gliding trip in the Swiss mountains on YouTube. Even though the video makes it clear from the beginning that Gursky survived the ordeal, watching is still a hair-raising experience.
Gursky and the pilot took off from a mountain some 4,000 feet in the air for what was supposed to be a scenic and leisurely flight over a beautiful landscape.