Paragliding Through the Skies with Galen Kirkpatrick

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🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Galen Kirkpatrick is a world class paraglider - in 2022 she was the FAI Women’s Pan-American Paragliding Champion, and in 2023 she became the overall US National Champion. Paragliding has become a vehicle for Galen to get in touch with herself and see the world from a new perspective.

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0:00.0	Hey guys it's Shelby! My book Will to Wild, Adventures Great and Small to Change Your Life,
0:07.0	is now available in paperback, so it's light enough to take on the trail and on your summer travels.
0:12.0	You can get the book wherever books are sold. to take on the trail and on your summer travels.
0:13.0	You can get the book wherever books are sold,
0:15.3	and if you'd rather listen to it,
0:16.8	you can also get it on audible.
0:18.7	Yours truly as narrator, so it should be a good time.
0:21.8	Again, the title is Will to Wild. Adventures great and small to change
0:26.2	your life. I have always loved looking at things from above. I mean I always needed to sit in a window seat on the airplane and I love looking off of trees that I've climbed or cliffs or mountains. It's just to look down on things, to see things from an aerial perspective feels
0:57.7	completely magical to me. And so while paragliding, you get to do that repeatedly for as long as you keep flying.
1:07.0	Gheeling Kirkpatrick, Spencer Day's paragliding through the skies.
1:15.0	She takes off from hills or cliffs, running and jumping as she pulls her arched fabric sail up behind her like a kite.
1:22.0	Once she's in the air, Galen reclines into a comfortable harness and
1:26.7	steers her way over mountain ranges, lush forests, and deep valleys.
1:32.0	Paragliding has become a vehicle for Galen to get in touch with herself and see the world from a new perspective.
1:38.0	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living,
1:42.0	an REI co-op studios production brought to you by Capital One.
1:47.0	Galen Kirkpatrick is a world-class paraglider.
1:53.2	In 2022, she was the FAI woman's Pan-American paragliding champion.
1:59.0	And in 2023, she won the US Open.
2:02.4	Gailin took her first paragliding flight eight years ago.
2:05.0	Now, she has made a career teaching and competing in the sport.
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