And yet, Skybound is still a book about learning to live again: deeply moving, thrilling and euphoric, this is a book for anyone who has ever looked up and wanted to take flight. Just as she finished writing Skybound Rebecca became ill again. A group of geese became alarmed and flew up to investigate and discovered a beautiful pregnant Sky Woman falling from above. Taking in the history of unpowered flight, and with extraordinary descriptions of flying in some of the world's most dangerous and dramatic locations, this is a nature memoir with a unique perspective it is about the land we know and the sky we know so little of, it is about memory and self-discovery. This is a biohazard issue: footage emerges of plane forced to U-turn over diarrhoea video. Skybound is the story of that obsession and of Rebecca's incredible journey from the ground, into the sky and back again. If illness meant Rebecca had lost touch with the world around her, gliding showed her a way to learn to live again.Īnd so Rebecca travelled from the Black Mountains in Wales to New Zealand's Southern Alps and the Nepalese Himalayas to chase her newfound passion: her need to fly with the birds, to push herself to the boundary of her own fear. In that engineless plane, soaring 3000 feet over the landscape of her childhood with only the rising thermals to take her higher and the birds to lead the way, she fell in love. A column of light streamed from a hole in the Skyworld, marking her path where only darkness had. The video, which circulated on social media, shows. She fell like a maple seed, pirouetting on an autumn breeze. Local authorities haven’t confirmed what caused the birds’ sudden death, Reuters reports. Two years later, and after months of gruelling treatment, she flew in a glider for the first time. A video shows the terrifying moment a passenger reportedly opened an emergency exit door while it was coming in to land in South Korea on Friday. Nearly 100 migratory birds were found after dropping mid-flight in Chihuahua, Mexico. In her mid-30s Rebecca Loncraine was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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