Le massif du Mont blanc et l'Aiguille du midi (Site naturel en France | notrebellefrance)
Sans doute un des plus beaux endroits de la planète. La vallée de Chamonix est un écrin de nature préservé. Admirez ce spectacle grandiose, ces couleurs, ces espaces... Le massif du Mont Blanc est propice à l'évasion sous toutes ses formes: randonnées, alpinisme, canyoning, rafting, escalade, Vtt, parapente...
Paragliding Video in Kullu,Manali,Solang Valley,Himachal Pradesh,India.Indian Fun tour Activity
Paragliding Video in Kullu,Manali,Solang Valley,Himachal Pradesh,India.Indian Fun tour Activity
Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure.[1] The pilot sits in a harness suspended below a fabric wing comprising a large number of interconnected baffled cells. Wing shape is maintained by the suspension lines, the pressure of air entering vents in the front of the wing, and the aerodynamic forces of the air flowing over the outside.
Despite not using an engine, paragliders flight can last many hours and cover many hundreds of kilometers, though flights of one to two hours and covering some tens of kilometers are more the norm. By skillful exploitation of sources of lift, the pilot may gain height, often climbing to altitudes of a few thousand meters.
The video game Steep (video game) features paragliding.
In 1952, Domina C. Jalbert advanced governable gliding parachutes with multi-cells and controls for lateral glide.[3]
In 1954, Walter Neumark predicted (in an article in Flight magazine) a time when a glider pilot would be able to launch himself by running over the edge of a cliff or down a slope ... whether on a rock-climbing holiday in Skye or ski-ing in the Alps.[4]
In 1961, the French engineer Pierre Lemoigne produced improved parachute designs that led to the Para-Commander. The PC had cutouts at the rear and sides that enabled it to be towed into the air and steered – leading to parasailing/parascending.
Canadian Domina Jalbert invented the Parafoil, which had sectioned cells in an aerofoil shape; an open leading edge and a closed trailing edge, inflated by passage through the air – the ram-air design. He filed US Patent 3131894 on January 10, 1963.
About that same time, David Barish was developing the sail wing (single-surface wing) for recovery of NASA space capsules – slope soaring was a way of testing out ... the Sail Wing.[6] After tests on Hunter Mountain, New York, in September 1965, he went on to promote slope soaring as a summer activity for ski resorts.[7][8]
Author Walter Neumark wrote Operating Procedures for Ascending Parachutes, and he and a group of enthusiasts with a passion for tow-launching PCs and ram-air parachutes eventually broke away from the British Parachute Association to form the British Association of Parascending Clubs (BAPC) in 1973. Authors Patrick Gilligan (Canada) and Bertrand Dubuis (Switzerland) wrote the first flight manual, The Paragliding Manual in 1985, officially coining the word paragliding.
These developments were combined in June 1978 by three friends, Jean-Claude Bétemps, André Bohn and Gérard Bosson, from Mieussy, Haute-Savoie, France. After inspiration from an article on slope soaring in the Parachute Manual magazine by parachutist and publisher Dan Poynter,[8] they calculated that on a suitable slope, a square ram-air parachute could be inflated by running down the slope; Bétemps launched from Pointe du Pertuiset, Mieussy, and flew 100 m. Bohn followed him and glided down to the football pitch in the valley 1000 metres below.[9] Parapente (pente being French for slope) was born.
From the 1980s, equipment has continued to improve, and the number of paragliding pilots and established sites has continued to increase. The first (unofficial) Paragliding World Championship was held in Verbier, Switzerland, in 1987,[10] though the first officially sanctioned FAI World Championship was held in Kössen, Austria, in 1989.
Europe has seen the greatest growth in paragliding, with France alone currently registering over 25,000 active pilots
Lac d'Annecy en bateau - le Roc de Chère et la légende de la dame d'Angon - HDV
Balade sur le lac d'Annecy de Veyrier à Talloire et découverte d'une grotte située en bas du Roc de Chere, accessible uniquement par bateau.
Malgré la beauté des lieux, le Roc de Chère est un endroit dangereux ; les accidents de noyade sont malheureusement fréquents et on retrouve les corps parfois des années plus tard.
On voit encore une plaque apposée sur le rocher qui rappelle une noyade en 1972. Il y a eu également plusieurs collisions mortelles contre ce rocher, la dernière en 2009 qui a fait 3 morts.
Il y a enfin la légende de la dame d'Angon:
En effet le lac d’Annecy porte dans ses eaux des histoires plus glaçantes que les courants eux-mêmes. Celle de la Dame d’Angon, fait frémir. Elle explique pourquoi on ne retrouve presque jamais les corps des malheureux qui se noient régulièrement au pied du Roc de Chère. Après s’être jetée, désespérée, dans les flots depuis la montagne, Bernoline les garderait près d’elle pour les observer. Mais, pourquoi s’empare-t-elle de ces cadavres ? Une légende livre la clef de cette funeste “collection “.
Tout commence par la noblesse de ses traits. Orpheline et d’une beauté lumineuse, la jeune châtelaine égrenait seule des jours insipides dans le château d’Angon. Un jour, un jeune Croisé, vient lui demander asile pour quelques jours. L’idylle est immédiate. Mais le devoir n’attend pas. L’homme part embrocher les infidèles et revient un an après. Ils se marient et vivent deux ans d’un parfait bonheur. Un caprice viendra fêler ce bonheur d’airain. Bernoline voit passer, un soir, au-dessus de sa tête une étoile sublime. Elle la veut. Son époux promet de lui rapporter. Il part à l’assaut du monde et des mers. Au bout de cent jours, il rencontre une sirène qui lui remet l’astre convoité. Elle lui dit : “Il faut que tu sois de retour à Angon ce soir sinon Bernoline paiera de sa vie cette tocade.” Le chevalier repart au grand galop… et arrive à la tombée de la nuit au bout du lac, à Lathuile. Soudain la tempête se lève. Il se trompe et part vers Duingt. Pris par le temps, il appelle un homme sur une barque, pour lui faire traverser le lac.
Ce dernier lui promet de le mener auprès de sa belle à condition qu’il lui abandonne son âme d’ici dix ans. Sinon, elle périra. Le chevalier accepte le marché de celui qui n’était autre que Satan. Il retrouva Bernoline et vécurent heureux jusqu’au jour où… le gentilhomme quitte sa demeure et prie son serviteur d’expliquer sa femme la convention diabolique. Elle se jure alors d’arracher son mari des griffes du diable. Satan se présente un jour à elle.
Il lui promet de lui rendre à condition qu’elle le reconnaisse parmi une foule de passants. Elle passe tous ceux qu’elle rencontre à la loupe, sans reconnaître son amour. Or, le diable lui dit qu’il est passé au moins dix fois devant ses yeux, sous des apparences différentes. Désespérée, elle se jeta dans le lac depuis le sommet du Roc de Chère. Et depuis ne cesse d’attirer vers elle les noyés, croyant reconnaître son époux. Et si vous entendez, la nuit, des gémissements provenir des eaux, c’est qu’elle ne l’a toujours pas retrouvé.
Attention aux âmes sensibles. il y a peut être des images de fantômes...
Filmé en HDV avec une Sony Z1
Marseille Cathedral, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Europe
The Cathedral of the Major or Santa Maria Maggiore Cathedral is the Catholic Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Marseille. The Major was built in neo-Byzantine style between 1852 and 1893 on plans by architect Léon Vaudoyer. Located in the district of Joliette in the 2nd district, it stands on an esplanade between the Old Port and harbor of Joliette, on the site of the former cathedral of the twelfth century, where does the Occitan name of Major. Its architecture and interior design, marble and porphyry, give it a special appearance for a religious building. It was erected in minor basilica by Pope Leo XIII on January 24, 1896. Since the fifth century, several religious buildings succeed at this location. The present cathedral, the new Major, rises to the west of the remains of the old Romanesque cathedral, the old Major. But the destruction and the foundations for the implementation of the new cathedral have revealed the existence of a third early Christian church and the largest baptistery Gallic established on the same site. Primitive cathedral, there is not much. Several fragments of mosaic floors were found during the construction of the new Major in the nineteenth century, together with the primitive baptistery. These remains have disappeared and are known to us only by the description F. Roustan left. More recent excavations by F. Paone met other fragments of mosaic in the last bay of preserved nave. Some wall fragments in pink limestone Crown show that the material used was similar to that of the Romanesque cathedral. Comparing these findings with those of the nineteenth century, it appears that the original cathedral was to over 60 m long and a width of 26 to 34 m depending on the width that is given to the ships. A restoration took place in Carolingian times: more sculpted decorations kept to interlacing motifs are characteristic of this period. Subsequently, it is the bishop who Pons I rebuilt the apse in the middle of the eleventh century The construction differs from the original cathedral by the use of white limestone. The old Major was built in the twelfth century in Romanesque style. It had to be destroyed to allow the construction of the new cathedral but, faced with protests, the choir and a span were kept. Decided by Bishop Eugene de Mazenod, requesting the authorities, as required by bankruptcy plan, the construction of a new cathedral is undertaken in 1852. It was Prince-President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte who laid the first stone 26 September 1852. Its successive architects agree largely to historicism. With its apparatus alternately green and white stones, this building Byzantine-inspired (Employment mosaic, domes) juxtaposes Romanesque and Gothic elements. The Latin cross is designed by Leon Vaudoyer in the Romanesque-Byzantine style. The simultaneous presence of spiers and domes is due to the will of the architect to refer to the West and the East, on the model of Notre Dame des Doms in Avignon. But its domes and cupolas reminiscent of churches in Istanbul. Structured as a tripartite structure composed of a monumental portico framed by two towers, an imposing nave and a massive grouping the shrines, the cathedral forms an extraordinary architectural building, which had no equivalent in the whole nineteenth century. The construction lasted 40 years and, even today, coatings planned for the vaults and domes are not all completed. The materials used for the construction of the Byzantine cathedral are very varied: green stone from Florence, white Carrara marble, stone Calissane and Gard, onyx from Italy and Tunisia, mosaics of Venice. Leon Vaudoyer died in 1872. The architect Jacques Henri Esperandieu Nîmes, pupil and collaborator of Leon Vaudoyer, succeeded him and completes the installation of steel structures and realization of domes. He died in turn in 1874. It was Henri Antoine Révoil completes the construction, giving special emphasis to the decoration: mosaics, sculptures, bronze, in the company of Errard inspectors Mouren and Joly. The interior decoration is in marble and porphyry, inspired by Byzantine style. The cupolas and balustrades are decorated with elements borrowed from the cathedrals of Lucca and Siena. The novelty of the decor is mainly due to the importance of the mosaic cycles. He hands the cathedral to Bishop Jean-Louis Robert on November 30, 1893.
Summer in Morillon - Alps in Style
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