{"id":1322521,"date":"2017-04-16T23:44:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T21:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winguu.com\/blog\/archives\/1322521"},"modified":"2017-04-16T23:44:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T21:44:43","slug":"cover-story-tandem-paragliding-over-sacred-machapuchare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winguu.com\/el\/cover-story-tandem-paragliding-over-sacred-machapuchare\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover story: Tandem paragliding over sacred Machapuchare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe first thermals were weak \u2026 but we had to try. We scraped, scratched and battled, and found a thermal that took us up 100m. Slowly we worked it.\u201d Machapuchare, towering over Pokhara, is one of the Himalayas&#8217; holy mountains. But would four brave tandem pilots succeed in their ambitious quest to fly over its [\u2026] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xcmag.com\/2017\/04\/cover-story-tandem-paragliding-over-sacred-machapuchare\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xcmag.com\/2017\/04\/cover-story-tandem-paragliding-over-sacred-machapuchare\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Cover story: Tandem paragliding over sacred Machapuchare\">Cross Country &#8211; International Free Flying Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe first thermals were weak \u2026 but we had to try. We scraped, scratched and battled, and found a thermal that took us up 100m. Slowly we worked it.\u201d Machapuchare, towering over Pokhara, is one of the Himalayas&#8217; holy mountains. But would four brave tandem pilots succeed in their ambitious quest to fly over its [\u2026] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xcmag.com\/2017\/04\/cover-story-tandem-paragliding-over-sacred-machapuchare\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-para-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cover story: Tandem paragliding over sacred Machapuchare - winguu \u00b0 fly high \u00b0 land gently<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winguu.com\/el\/cover-story-tandem-paragliding-over-sacred-machapuchare\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"el_GR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cover story: Tandem paragliding over sacred Machapuchare - winguu \u00b0 fly high \u00b0 land gently\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cThe first thermals were weak \u2026 but we had to try. 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