Adventure Mode: Free-flight safari in Kenya

Chris Garcia has been taking paragliding trips to Kenya with his company Convergence Paragliding for several years, but last January he really turned up the dial when they headed to the northern part of the country, near Mt Kenya and the border with Ethiopia. “We had a helicopter up there to take us to some really remote places, places no one had flown before, so we were able to access some of the deeper, more remote parts.”

The team chartered a B4 helicopter that could fit four pilots and all the gear and used it while on ’paragliding safari’. “One night we flew up to a high point, had a nice camp-out...