{"id":72020,"date":"2025-05-29T13:39:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T04:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/may\/29\/paraglider-survives-accidental-8500-metre-high-flight-in-china-video"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:39:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T04:39:31","slug":"paraglider-survives-accidental-8000-metre-high-flight-in-china-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72020","title":{"rendered":"Paraglider survives accidental 8,000-metre-high flight in China \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese paraglider who was accidentally carried more than 8,000 metres into the air by an updraft has been banned from flying for six months after footage of his ordeal went viral. Peng Yujiang  started his reported practice flight from an elevation of about 3,000m in the Qilian mountain range in northern China but was caught in a strong updraft, soaring more than 5,000m higher<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/may\/29\/paraglider-survives-accidental-8500-metre-high-flight-in-china-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese paraglider who was accidentally carried more than 8,000 metres into the air by an updraft has been banned from flying for six months after footage of his ordeal went viral. Peng Yujiang  started his reported practice flight from an elevation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72021,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72020\/revisions\/72021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}