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It’s shortly after five on the evening of August 1, 2014, and the
winds on Mount Robson are calm, the sky is sapphire, and the sun is blazing,
pushing temperatures to a near record 83 degrees. Robson—at 12,972 feet the
highest peak in the Canadian Rockies—is so far north that darkness won’t fall
here for several hours.

Suddenly, a red streak flits past the summit. Next, an orange blip loops into
view. They’re paragliders, two of them, waltzing with the mountain, which looks
like a Giza pyramid clad in ice. For nearly an hour, Will Gadd and Gavin McClurg
soar like lazy raptors.

Climbers descending Robson’s south face stop to watch, dumbfounded. From above
they can hear howls of joy. “Will was screaming the whole time,” McClurg, 43,
tells me a few days later, while we’re camped in a neighboring mountain range.

“I never thought it was possible,” says Gadd, 48, a renowned paraglider who has
set several distance-flying records in the sport. He’s also an accomplished ice
climber, having won almost every major competition there is. Gadd lives in
Canmore, Alberta, and knows Robson well. That’s because in 2002—on his fifth
attempt—he completed the first one-day ascent of the peak. “I failed to summit
Robson four times,” he says. “But flying paragliders over it? It had never been
done or even seriously considered.”