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"I Dreamed of Flying, Being Free": Who Was Glenn Michelland, the Paramotor Pilot Dead After a Fall in Lake Annecy

Summary by Le Parisien
The athlete who regularly flew over the Haute-Loire he loved so much died on Saturday when he fell over Lake Annecy.

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The drama occurred on Saturday, June 28, as he made a complex technical gesture as part of a flight.

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The athlete who regularly flew over the Haute-Loire he loved so much died on Saturday when he fell over Lake Annecy.

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A simulation exercise turns into a drama when the emergency parachute refuses to open, resulting in a fatal fall of 200 meters. An aerial drama shook Annecy's region this weekend. A 41-year-old man, taking part in a paragliding training course, died after a dizzying fall since the [...] Read more Tragedy in Haute-Savoie: A paraglider succumbs to a dizzying fall first appeared on Le Singulier.

The 41-year-old paraglider who killed himself this weekend at Lake Annecy, lived in Lapte, Haute-Loire. He was doing a paragliding internship precisely and he made a fatal fall in Lake Haute-Savoie. Glenn Michelland was a paramotor world champion.

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France Bleu broke the news in on Sunday, June 29, 2025.
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