Up Above the World so High: Woman Flies With Geese Over the Alps

Up Above the World so High: Woman Flies With Geese Over the Alps
Geese fly with a yellow hang-glider at the Grand Park of Puy-du-Fou in Les Epesses, France on June 30, 2011. Credit: Joel Saget/AFP/GettyImages
Reuters
Updated:

DOUSSARD, France—Nathalie Maniglier suffers from a degenerative eye condition and has a special wish: Before she loses her sight, she wants to experience a bird’s eye view.

She achieved that ambition on Wednesday, when pilot Dominique Cruciani took her up in his microlight over the French Alps, accompanied by a flock of juvenile geese trained to follow the aircraft through the skies.