http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/us/04paraglide.html?_r=1

http://video.nytimes.com/?src=hp1-0-V

KETCHUM, Idaho — Searching for ways to keep his adrenaline pumping
after a motorcycle accident forced him out of the military and into a
wheelchair, Darol Kubacz recast himself as something of a pioneer of extreme
sports.

First he took up downhill skiing, racing and jumping with such abandon that he
broke his spine a second time. After a painful rehab he started mountain biking
and scuba diving, and even hauled his barrel-chested frame up Mount Kilimanjaro.

Last month, that risks-be-damned pursuit of adventure drew Mr. Kubacz from his
home in Arizona to a rocky mountaintop here to do something a pair of working
legs never would have allowed anyway — take flight.

“Like the Marines say,” he said, “adapt and overcome.”

And with the crunch of sagebrush under a new, modified wheelchair, Mr. Kubacz,
37, and his instructor rolled down the slope and then soared into the expanse,
his paraglider canopy lofting in the breeze.