Paramotor Flight Over Alaska's Chugach Mountains and Knik Glacier | National Geographic

A powered paraglider offers stunning views in the jagged landscape of Alaska's Chugach Mountains and Knik Glacier.
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The western edge of Alaska's Chugach Mountains comes all the way up to the city of Anchorage. That access makes the peaks an attractive landscape for paramotor pilots like Chris Reynolds, who lives in nearby Big Lake. In ultralight aircraft, pilots are free to skim the terrain's contours. Just 50 miles east of Anchorage the Knik Glacier spills out from the Chugach Range over more than 100,000 acres. This glacier extends 28 miles starting up around the 13,000-foot peak of Mount Marcus Baker, the highest in the Chugach. Formed in the Pleistocene, the whole glacier is in motion, sliding downhill at less than 0.0001 MPH. Every day at the terminus, icebergs calve and feed the Knik River. Like most of the region's glaciers, the Knik is losing more ice each year than precipitation can replace. Despite its proximity to the city, you can't get to Knik Glacier by road. But that's no obstacle if you can take to the sky.
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[@NatGeo]

Chris Reynolds has flown hundreds of times over the last decade, and he’s not stopping anytime soon. What do you think of this incredible aerial view of the Alaskan landscape?

[@biggus6633]

What was that music being played? It sounds awesome. It almost reminds me of Pink Floyd.

[@PantsB4Squares]

Usman 8bp leave big gus alone!

[@theparrotrescuer3042]

That's stunningly beautiful.

[@jtraub579]

Very beautiful!

[@roberteshelman5917]

What an epic adventure. I'd love to fly there.

[@requerdodeamormiamor6216]

awesome:)

[@BlueSkyne]

Looks like a dream. Amazing

[@allncarallwhed209]

Beautiful video

[@sukumams9684]

Propeller in his back reminded me of peapock XD

[@biggus6633]

The views are epic and that music being played is epic as well.

[@NatGeo]

We agree, Gus! The Alaskan landscape truly is epic, and we're glad you found our music selection a suitable match 🎶

[@YankeeinSC1]

In 30 years of airliner flying, the worst turbulence I'd consistently encountered was around the Alaskan range and occasionally the Brooks range. Pick your PPG days carefully up there!

[@naybobdenod]

That really is soooooo COOL.
Greetings from the UK.
John

[@hetane]

Imagine being above the mountains with him ..perfect view ...and that horrible engine sound ! :)

[@JA238979]

Hehe I don't know the details, but I can say that I don't like the sound nor smell of the lawn mower engines required for this! I would like to try something like this in a safe place, and I would ensure that any motor was clean and regulated.

[@bobvogel6844]

Cool thing is, you can shut it off and soar silently, then start it again to gain back altitude. A paramotor engine is a means to an end, not the means itself.

[@engagein2758]

Omg! This is amazing.

[@suzyadvise9833]

Beautiful!

[@AaronRpsychology]

That looks amazing!

[@Tech7WorldK]

Wonderful

[@siocnarf191]

WoW

[@ronniemark9690]

Awesome:)

[@Carlparishhonda]

I would love to try flying one.

[@NatGeo]

We hope you get the opportunity to do so, Carl! While Chris Reynolds now is a paramotorist, he first developed his interest in the sport through kite-skiing.

[@TrevorSteele1]

If you are interested in really experiencing and flying one check out totallyawesome .com or Dell Schanze on youtube haha! Not here to sell anything just giving you my recommendation!

[@pablomoralesmorato2654]

Great! great !

[@jawdatjm948]

nice view👌👌

[@benjaminwalsh289]

That is a dream of mine to do that! I will move to Tanana one day finally and live the life I want so bad.

[@Landonmoto39]

Did you ever make it up here?

[@amycuaresma]

Do you have to have any FAA CLEARANCE?
I live in Anchorage Alaska about a mile for LAKE Hood, the float plabe Capitol of the world. Lots of low flying small aircraft. Also right next to Ted Stevens international airport

[@Walrus347]

This video is beautiful and all...
but I'm doing research for my Aviation Science degree on a 747 that nearly crashed because of the turbulence created by these mountains and quivering at the thought of what that same turbulence can do to these paramotors

[@IntellectualHazard]

Is any FSX pilot reminded of the first aircraft in FSX??

[@noyanjoti8494]

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘nice

[@ghosttgirlghosttspook5478]

that would be cold!

[@MuhammadEgypt]

When will you give away free flights for the audience, National Geographic? :D Kidding!

[@Stan7670]

Visually stunning. Hate to be negative but how risky is that? If he went down what would be his chance of survival?

[@_voyager02]

Stan7670 paramotors are very safe. In fact they are one of the safest forms of flying.

[@srijanabaruah756]

I'd like to work for Nat Geo😊😂!!

[@XenoVI]

One of the best ways to fly, it's called Paramotoring

[@ashwhikidd]

The song has a Pink Floyd feel to it

[@juancruzbassi6600]

Sameeee

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I've just seen in to the wild movie

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😱

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😍

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🌈

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