Wishing you happiness for the rest of your life.

squeeze gates are the dumbest thing ever.

Allahin selami ustune olsun

Beautiful vid, nice work...and you are such an inspiration.

Nice man, looks like my kind of holiday. Where did you buy your pack raft from?

Props man, great wheel control ! Lived in Iceland for a while, not a common thing to see for sure. Hugs man!

Enjoyed that. Cheers

play stupid games win stupid prizes dude. Zero sympathy.

A point of confusion for me. If the surface radiates at 350w/m2 and the back radiation is at 324w/m2, standing on the surface I am receiving 674 w/m2 in IR average, compared to 184w/m2 for sunlight? I get a sunburn from the sun which is less than a quarter of the IR energy.. how / why / huh ? Doesn't the energy depend on wavelength? How can I have so much energy at long wavelengths and does it actually double because the atmosphere captures it? call me confused.

I did the same convergence flight off Tambo, with Richard V and I think Ivan, years ago, very memorial with clouds forming under us and in constant smooth lift. It was great watching this.

Good you see you still pursuing flight. Really great story after everything. Can thoroughly recommend nano trikes. There are some good soaring wings with seated trikes available with smallish motors. In the UK we have the sub-70 class which encompasses these. Not sure about NZ. With them it's great being able to take off from a field, fly high and soar, then return to the field. They have great short field characteristics. I used to fly them but moved to up to microlights.

Great video Broski!

trike hang glider looks way to go,better gear available these days.

Something like the Silent Glider M by Helmut Grossklaus might suit you: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5XCi5ylj7WorpYsi=ytG7i7hLUqvBK9VS

thanks for sharing :) Its great to see you both still go on an chase the things you love and i find it really interesting following your story on being able to fly again! I hope this works out so you can get back in the skies solo again! Hopefully you can run the fan of electric in the near future so its not super noisy :)

Great vid, love the scenery................but that wind!

Nice video Nick. Wish I could wheelie like you. Iceland is an intriguing place. I've followed this Icelandic guy with a cool english voice for a couple of years. Mostly volcanic content but also about Iceland. www.youtube.com/@JustIcelandic

So your risky, thrill seeking behavior, poor decisions, and disregard for others ......... directly placed the lives of the helicopter rescue crews in danger as well. Real smart guy.

We gave ourselves a month in Iceland just to account for the multiple weather related down days. But most of our photos have blue sky.

You're lucky to have had the cameras to be able to record this excellent adventure when you did. My own life altering accident was 10 years earlier, so all I really have from my years of flying is a lot of photos. I'm fortunate to have videos like yours to watch to remind me what it was like. Cheers! ♿️🇨🇦

haha, get a helmet to ride that wheelchair downhill Nick! cool stuff anyway

Tout vol mérite son crash. Courage mec , à st hilaire du Touvet tu peut trouver un fauteuil Volant handIcare ,en attendant.

Keep up the good work. Looks like your mobility is improving?

obserwuje Was ..Ciebie od dłuższego czasu ..Pozdrawiam i cieszy mnie to co dajecie pooglądać..dziwne i niesamowite jest życie Dobrego Dnia

You’re v brave.

I broke my lumbar vertebra while crashing in the ground after the wing collapsed. But it was a prototype with special wing steering. The speed was high and I been after hitting the ground again in the air. I managed to recover and landed safe. After that I took my standard one and fly 2 more times. After the 3 landing my back pain gets more and I could not stand anymore really. A stranger passed by and asked me what happened. He sad I might habe broke my back bone and so my friend drove me in the evening to the hospital. They made a X-ray and the doctor been confused as he had a look at it that I stand near him. I had immediately lay down in the hospital bed for 6 weeks. A female doctor sad the next morning after touching slightly over ,y bed an height of my penis: 2cm and here would be a dead zone. This accident happened 1987 in the beginner time of paragliding. I quit flying 2 years after the accident. I wish you all the best🌊🌊🌊🌊🌈🌈🌈

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Great explanation...one of the best I've heard👌

Always sad to hear from a crash. I am paraglider too, I know the place where you crashed. I fly for more than 25 years know and hear about and see crashed since then. You are lucky to be alive. A lot of people crashing in the rocks do not have that chance. You are lucky that helicopter rescue exist and came for you. Your friends didn't land to help you. The rescue team didn't know your injuries. Maybe you were already injured at your spine, maybe not. Maybe you were spreading your blood and every minutes was important to save your live. I read in the report that the rescue guy was injured. These guy take risk from his live to save yours. Please be aware of it. I think that they do everything to save lives sometimes at the cost of their own. Be grateful to the rescue guys. Don't blame them, even it is sad to be in chair wheel. You knew the risks of your activity, I know the risk of my activity, I would never blame anyone after I crash. It is simple, do not crash, fly a safer glider, take security margins, do not fly when conditions are not at your level of experience, be humble. Flying is a wonderful activity but to fly safe you have to ignore group pressure and ignore ego. I hope that you will enjoy life even in wheel chair, maybe enjoy paragliding again in wheel chair and think about the guys who saved you life the way they deserve.

You are in the Czech republic?

Really enjoyed watching that Nick. What a woman she is!

I wish you a speedy recovery and that you come back as soon as possible paragliding fly.

Nice Wheelchair. How much it is ?

Brah! Did you not see the giant storm?

Have you tried condor soaring simulator? 🤔

Good to see you are doing well. Have i missed it or will you be uploading the actual crash footage someday?

Never has a Wollies bag saved a life like this before.

Really heavy man...Thanks for sharing. A close relative is also thinking about picking up this sport in the Annecy region. It always worries me a bit. He has already made 10+ tandem flights and wants to pick up learning to ultimately fly himself. Should I worry or not? How safe is it after a two-week IPPI 2+3 course??

Nick, you will absolutely get through the BS eventually. 100%.

Love the content. Well done 👍👍👍

I hope it's less scary to do than it is to watch!

That variometer audio drives me nuts.

Thanks for sharing! Inspiring

Is there any hope that you will be able to walk standing up in the future, you are one of my favorite pilots, greetings from Morocco

Thank you for posting your video mate, I wish you all the best, take care !

Nick, suggested background music- " Learning to Fly"

Nice to see you doing some Acro with that toy!! Well done!

The cheapest places in the world with consistent swell are a godsend for surfers. Where are the same places but for gliding in your sailplane? Ive always been a huge fan of useing a combination of Numbeo to find cheapest locations and skyscanner etc for flights etc Kiters were able to pretty much piggyback off the windsurfers of yesteryear. and i believe those windsurfers opened theyre wind sport resorts after the hippy movement founded all the dive sites and dive resorts as they went about the globe doing theyre thing back then. Maybe rather then catagorizing glider ports (What even is the derogatory slang for a sailplainer?) By how much $$ is a local beer and chicken rice combo (as i normally would with surfing etc) You can catagorize them by how many crazy hoops and fees and insurances you gotto jump thru instead. I know skydiving has always been cheaper in russia because they use huge ass planes so because you can fit like hundreds in its less per a jump Maybe theres a few countrys where theres little to no regs etc ? A spreadsheet on the worlds least/strictest civil aviation could be fun might even find a new unknown gem kept secret Let me know if you find a place thats only 1k aud a year to survive with no aviation rules and ill retire there tomorrow

I watched a close friend suffer a severe spinal injury while eduro Motocross riding through rough terrain. It's probably the most horrendous thing I've ever watched. He lost feeling from the waist down and is now in a care facility as he also had a nasty head injury leaving him with mental defficites. He wasn't wearing the proper gear, which I and others warned him about before we set off. His wife left him, and he only sees his kids every couple of weeks when they visit his care facility. I go every single Friday without fail, and if I'm on holiday, another mate will go. He's incredibly positive given his situation and has taken up a number of hobbies. He seems happy, but I can't imagine how he must feel when he lies there at night alone. I hope you recover, and it seems you have a fantastic support system, something my friend didn't have. (His ex-wife was only there for his money).

Love a good rant. Keep ya chin up. Too much work already behind you to not see it through. Or move to North Korea.