A 55-year-old paraglider has shared his survival story and video after being unexpectedly lifted by a powerful updraft into the upper atmosphere during a flight over the Qilian Mountains in China.

Death-defying flier says trauma of ordeal has put him off flying as he becomes legend among fellow paragliders.

A Chinese paraglider has survived being accidentally propelled 8,500m (27,800ft) into the sky above north-west China, state ...

Chinese authorities are investigating an incident in which a paraglider was sucked into the clouds and carried more than ...

Peng Yujiang, a paraglider who unintentionally set a new world altitude record, has been given a six-month flight suspension.

A 55-year-old paraglider in Gansu province, who miraculously survived after being sucked into a cumulus cloud at an altitude ...

A paraglider pilot in northwest China has been suspended for six months by the Aero Sports Federation of China after being unexpectedly lifted to an altitude of 8,598 meters – higher than Mt Everest – ...

A Chinese paraglider who was accidentally propelled more than 8,000 metres high by an updraft has been banned from the activity for six months after a video of his ordeal went viral.

The cumulonimbus cloud carried him to 8,589 meters above sea level, where temperatures dropped to minus 40 degrees Celsius.

World number one Aryna Sabalenka beats Jil Teichmann in straight sets to reach the French Open third round at Roland Garros.