ten days of soaring through the temperate skies of vaya de bravo, mexico. >> i had flown a couple times every day. great flights. flew high and far. mexico is a great place because there's great flying weather. >> parr and his fellow paragliders are all wearing helmets with cameras attached. >> has sharp edges but not as bad as it was yesterday. there was nothing abnormal. the weather was good. i'm at 9,000. >> but suddenly parr's flying skills are put to the test by a massive thermal blast. >> you can think of it as a wall of air going up. and the result of that is that the front end of the glider pitches up and the glider stalls. just like an airplane would stall if you pointed it straight up in the air. >> unable to pull his glider out of the stall, parr finds himself spiraling towards the dense forest below. >> it was flying down faster and faster and started turning faster and faster. >> with no other options, parr