OGDEN — Search and rescue personnel worked to remove an injured paraglider from the Malan’s Peak area early Friday.
Weber County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Mark Lowther said the 31-year-old Ogden man was speed gliding, a form of paragliding, when he hit the ground hard and broke his ankles around 7:15 a.m.
The paraglider was with three friends, who carried the man, whose name was not released, several hundred yards up the mountain to reach a medical helicopter, Lowther said.
No one else was injured and Lowther said the man’s injuries are not life-threatening.
Lowther says the wind may have shifted to cause the paraglider to go down instead of out as he was preparing for takeoff.
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