BUCKETLIST TRAVEL #1: Paragliding in Switzerland

So we just experienced a couple g-forces. I was like yeah yeah oh good okay oh just a couple g's. Welcome to Crossing It Off, the show where we're completing 50 travel bucket list experiences because the world is big and life is short. We're your hosts Tim and Finn and today we're crossing off paragliding in Switzerland. This episode is sponsored by you. Thank you to the thousands of you who've supported this channel through a purchase of trip travel gear. Whether you're packing for the weekend or you're on a one-way ticket, thanks for taking Tripped. Welcome to Switzerland. Smack dab in the middle of western Europe but not actually part of the EU, Switzerland is one of the world's wealthiest countries and we don't just mean money. With its high peaks, alpine lakes, the world's best chocolate and more cheese than you ever knew you wanted, Switzerland might just be what the doctor ordered. We take you today to Interlaken. Literally meaning between lakes where there is quite literally something for everyone. Want to take it slow? Crack a book and enjoy a million Swiss franc view of mountains jutting up from turquoise lakes. Want to go fast? Rent a bike and find your new favorite road. Want to go even faster? Make Sir Isaac Newton jealous and experiment with gravity. This is however one of the top adventure capitals of the world. Here you can fall out of a perfectly good plane, jump off the side of a mountain and fly through the sky dangling from a kite. All are popular ways to explore terminal velocity. Heart racing yet? Stick around to the end of this video for a freestyle type of climbing called Via Ferrata. Click the like button for a new style of travel show on YouTube. Yes! Oh and for now, hold on to your seat. Okay. You ready for this tonight? Yes. And how did you sleep last night? What sleep? There are certain situations we get into where I'm more excited to do the thing or sometimes Finn is more excited to do the thing. You've had practice. Let's get going. Okay. Let's go fly. There we go. I was laughing at the website says that this is a low risk activity. Yes. I mean compared to maybe other things but not compared to like cooking. Okay. Okay. We're here. Just signed my life away to Domi. He's in charge for the next half hour. Be careful with the line. Absolutely. I'll be careful with the line. Yeah. Life depends on it. Are you nervous at all? I think I'm most excited about the running. Don't stop running. We didn't feel like flying. He's fun running. We're going to be best friends now. Oh is this Tim? There goes Tim. High diving but without the scary part. There goes Tim. Like hanging onto the straps like it does something. Here's me pretending to be helping. It's not helping. Look at that view of all those. Wait am I too heavy? I slowed us down here. There's Tim. There's where we were yesterday. Looks so cool. This just in. Domi isn't flying anymore. Hands free. Autopilot. Autopilot. Hands free. Well you probably wouldn't think it but the longer we fly the higher we get and now. That was awesome. I'm so relaxed up here. So nice. Don't worry everybody I'm just going to drive for a little bit. I'm going to build you up. Okay. Okay. It's very easy actually. Trust me. So Domi you told me in the car there's two different types of flying. We can go easy flying around. Basically what we do now here. Or we can go a bit more crazy. Crazy means faster. All right I mean what in Rome. Okay. How is that? Oh my god. Is that what skydiving feels like? Okay now we go crazy. All right. Gotta get down. Gotta get down somewhere. Yeah I got it. Wow. Oh my god. That was awesome. Oh nice. Oh my hands are tingling. That's the best part. That was the best part. It's pulling on your face coming down. What is that trick called? What did we do? First we did wing overs. Wing overs. Change of turns. Okay. Then we end up in a spiral dive. That's the one we felt some serious g-forces. Yeah. Yeah. Some serious g-forces. That was sweet. Okay. Okay. We're running. We're running. We're running. We're running. We're running. How was that? That was pretty chill until we did a couple flips. That was so sick. Nice job. Nice workout though. You guys were going hard. That was sick dude. Thank you so much. Happy when you are. Thank you. Thanks for trusting me. Yeah. So shaky all of a sudden. It was pulling my face as we were coming down and it was spinning it. You like felt it like pulling your skin. Dami was so chill. He was like, so we just experienced a couple g-forces. I was like, yeah, yeah. Oh good. Okay. That was g. Okay. Chill. Chill. Okay. Wait. Stay. Stay. Stay. Stay. Okay. Relax. Relax. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He almost asked. See, I knew it. We should have just talked about it. Yeah, but I don't have one. They have like a special harness. I was just helping. Thank you. Thank you. We survived and nobody died. And Pepper, next time you'll get to go. Well, off to the next tours guys. Thanks guys. Coming up on Crossing It Off. I'm actually really scared of heights. Paragliding in Switzerland is brought to you by Tripped XL Compression Cubes. On your trip to this alpine location, you'll want a few extra layers so you're not freezing. The XL set is designed to fit your checked luggage and is great for, you know, the big stuff. Sweaters, jeans, puffy jackets. Thanks for taking Tripped. Well, today after completing our first travel bucket list item, with together with Pepper and Leila, we are going to cross it off. Do you think you can help me? We're going to find the right one on this list and then we're going to take the pen and we're going to put a line through it. Okay? Yeah. Okay. Let's see. Paraglide with your daddy in Switzerland. So we can take this. We'll do it together. One, two. Yay. Good job. Yeah. We can do that one next time. Thanks paragliding interlocking. That was an insane experience and just awesome to ride with people from the area. That absolutely lived up to the expectations. If you couldn't tell from just the video before, you take off and then your pilot just starts like pumping and working the chute and you start grabbing thermal and it's almost immediately they're taking you higher than where you took off from. Just riding the thermals, man. Higher and higher. And then just peaceful gliding over. Which kind of made it special. I mean, that was what made the trip longer because I think you can get down in five minutes or something. So we were up there for a nice amount of time. And I mean, it's kind of intimate how you're going up there and you're alone and you're also putting your life in their hands and you make a new friend. It could be awkward. That's what I said to Domi. I said, we're going to be best friends after this because I don't know, like sometimes the guide makes all the difference on so many of these things that we've done. And to have good guides again, just like, you're just like, thank you. Because to not have a good guide kind of ruins everything. Yeah. But no, that was so cool. Okay. We didn't plan this, but how cool. I planned that. Perfect. 37. Exactly. Wow. How good of a background is that? Wow. That was so scenic. Okay. We crossed it off. I would definitely go paragliding again. Absolutely. I'll go again right now. Paragliding was just one of the epic days we had here. All our adventures are shared and saved on our profile for you to check out as well as travel tips. If you're coming to the area, speaking of Instagram, if you feel like you've been seeing more content than ever from here, you're not alone. You can't open Instagram without earth picks, serving you up fairytale inspired pictures of Lauterbrunnen, you know, this one with the waterfall, but this is really just scratching the surface of what else is here. Some places are not even accessible by road, only by cable car, which Tim alone, you know, because someone around here needs to work, takes you now up to the town of Murren. As if there wasn't enough to do here in the area, Timo and Christine were nice enough to lend me equipment so I could go and do a little via ferrata. There is one that starts right here in Murren. If you don't have somebody nice enough to lend you equipment in the area, you can go rent it up here. The cost is free. If you don't know if you can go do it, you can also get a guided tour. I can't remember if I explained why you have the harness. I think it's pretty self-explanatory. There is a nice little bit of grass down below me. There won't always be this hike, but even when there's that little bit of grass, right after that is the ledge and it's really hard to grab onto that ledge if you just do something as Hanneson is slipping some of this mud today. I'm really happy it's not raining. It was supposed to So that's where you're happy you're clipped in and this is where you're really careful when you're transferring these. The worst thing that's going to happen out here is that you just slip and end up on your butt still attached to this cable. And if you're wondering, this cable is going to be like full of rust and rough. It's just a nice little handrail to use. Well, okay, never mind. I'm going to stop talking. Look at that. Look, they thought of everything. There's a rope to loop into. After being attached by a cable to the side of the mountain, I don't know why it seems sketchy to just only be tied to a tree. I'm sure that tree's fine. It's just when what you're standing on ends at this. If you've seen some of our other videos, I'm actually really scared of heights but this gets to the point where it's high enough where it's kind of imperceptible. 30 feet. I'm really scared of 30 feet. Yeah. Like, you objectively know this shouldn't be scary because you can't get hurt. It's still a little bit scary. Okay. I hate this part. Okay. It's not scary. It's not. Just think about it. It feels scary. Okay, if it's through the camera, it's not real. That's what I figured out. I don't have to look. I can just record it and watch it later. It's just a video on YouTube. I don't have to worry about it. It's not happening to me. All right, I'm ready to get off this part of it. Oh, that's got a little shake to it. All right. Oh my god. This is probably as good a place as any. If you read any of the blogs before you come out here, they say, like, anybody in moderate health can do this. This doesn't require extreme fitness to get out here by any means. It only takes about three hours to get down from Murin. Oh yeah. Wear good hiking shoes. It's funny. When I started this thing, there's a little bit of a walk through of trees to kick the whole thing off. I'm like, this is boring. Let's get to the good stuff. Now that I got a taste of the good stuff, I'm happy for a little tree walk to get a break. That wasn't hard, but my legs are still shaking after that. This is so fun. It's like an obstacle course. It's like being a little kid again. Look at this thing. This one's a little loose. That got put in on a Friday night. I'm sure it's fine. Still, makes you think. As I wrap up the Via Ferrata day, two things. One, this is an absolute blasty blast. I cannot believe that you can come do this for free if you have the equipment or for really low cost if you need to rent it. You don't have to check with anybody. You don't have to pay an entrance fee. This is just here. You can go do it. Second day. We're pretty exhausted at this point. We've been in the area for a week. We've been going nonstop. There's always something to do here, which brings me to this point. If you like pretty, beautiful things, you'll love it here. If you like fun, exciting activities, great spot to be. It never ends. If you don't like pretty things, if you don't like having fun or don't like doing activity, this Interlochen area is a nightmare to you. Stay away from it. Everybody else, you'll love it here. Come check it out. Oh, hi Swiss cows. Hi guys. I wasn't expecting to see you. Next time on Crossing It Off. Martinis in Monaco. Cheers.