Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is the world’s biggest top-to-bottom – a 90-minute glide with 5,000m (17,000ft) descent. And although 35,000 trekkers a year make the summit, only a handful ever fly off it. Peter Fay did it last year.
Why Kilimanjaro?
When Covid hit, my flight school in Hawaii, Paraglide Maui, was forced to stop running the school van. So a friend and I started to hike the 300m to launch instead. At the same time I saw a film online about flying from Kili and that triggered the idea. I went with my brother and his wife,...
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