Activities like rafting, ziplining and paragliding are increasing popular, but with unlicensed operators who use second-hand equipment and flout rules, the price of the buzz may be too high
Rishabh Tripathi’s 12-year-old son Advik was always pushing the family to try adventure sports and paragliding was the final activity planned for their family trip to Himachal in December 2021. ‘Papa, this is the best day of my life. I am doing all my favourite things,’ Advik had said at Bir Billing on that fateful day,” recalls Tripathi, an IT consultant in Bengaluru.
En route to the take-off site, the paragliding company’s open jeep recklessly drove uphill, collided with a two-wheeler and plunged into a gorge, throwing off the Tripathi family. Advik hit a rock and died. Worse, the driver and pilots fled the scene, leaving the injured family dependent on a passerby for rescue.
Source: Times of India
