BANGKOK, THAILAND - They don’t come better than this - don’t you love a granny with buzz about them. There’s no holding Peggy McAlpine (yes, McAlpine) after her Bungy jump 20yrs ago at age 80, she’s now managed to enter the Guinness book of records for going Paragliding at age 100! Incredible.

“I was sitting in a chair floating above the mountains. I’m not scared at all.”

She jumped tandem off a 2,500ft peak in a craggy Cyprus mountain. I hope there was a either a road of cable-car to get her up there!

Got to thank Alan at Paratiger for mailing us this one!

-Robin-

(Image Credit: Getty / Daily Mail)

BANGKOK, THAILAND (Team Geared Up) - BBC Scotland followed Ulric Jessop on the 2007 Red Bull X-Alps paragliding challenge. The X-Alps race is an 850km flying and mountain climbing race across the European Alps where competitors armed only with their paraglider must scale high enough to jump and get the maximum distance before repeating. The route goes from East to West along the main rib of the alps.

X-Alps the documentary is showing on TV tomorrow.

The documentary, X-Alps, The World’s Most Extreme Race, will be shown on BBC Scotland on Tuesday 30th October at 7:00pm.

It will also be available on the BBC IPlayer service for those in the UK. Thanks to Paratiger for the email to tip us off about this.

-Robin-