It was a bucket-list dream: To launch off the side of a Swiss mountain, to feel the rush of air and adrenaline, suspended over the trees and lakes by nothing but a hang-glider wing and a harness.
But moments after he had made the short run-up and his feet had left the 4,000-foot mountain edge, Chris Gursky knew something was wrong. As he felt his body weight drop, he realized the pilot hadn’t attached the harness that should have hung him from the tandem hang-glider.
