Last year the world distance paragliding record of over 300kms was set by Godfrey Wenness in Manilla. Eat your heart out Godfrey.
Weather plays an important part in smashing world records.
I had been watching Freddy on Pearl for a few nights before we left. Peter thought the weather girl on ATV had better elocution and would be more accurate. However at first things didn't look good. With all windows down, we could feel strong head winds of up to 100 kph plaguing us all the way. Yet when we stopped, the winds immediatley died off. .