KULLU: A 27-year-old Canadian paraglider died after crash-landing into the Dhauladhar mountains in Himachal Pradesh final week, whereas two overseas pilots had been rescued from the higher reaches of Kangra and Kullu districts on Monday. In line with her needs, Megan Elizabeth from Canada was cremated in Bir as per Hindu rituals on Tuesday.All three paragliders had taken off from the 8000-ft Bir-Billing web site close to Dharamshala, which pulls adventure-seekers from the world over. Elizabeth took off at 9.45am Saturday (Oct 18), however was compelled to crash-land beneath a rocky cliff within the Dhauladhar mountains, round 40km away, at an altitude of 4,000m (13,120ft).A search and rescue operation was launched as quickly as Kangra administration was knowledgeable of the accident. A crew from Billing Paragliding Affiliation (BPA) carried out helicopter sorties within the Dhauladhar mountains and dropped its chief, Rahul Singh, close to the positioning the place Elizabeth had crash-landed on Saturday night, as there was no area for touchdown a chopper. Singh was to search out Elizabeth and assist her survive till a full rescue crew arrived, however he couldn’t find her and spent the evening on a cliffside.On Sunday morning, 4 extra BPA crew members had been air-dropped, and so they managed to find her physique.“Elizabeth was compelled to crash-land both as a result of a sudden climate change or due to an issue together with her glider. She used the reserve glider whereas crash-landing, however I assume she was flying at a low altitude and hit the rocks whereas touchdown. She sustained critical head accidents,” stated BPA founder-director Suresh Thakur.BPA members carried Elizabeth’s physique down for over 1,000m (almost 3,300ft) till a chopper may airlift it to Kangra, the place an post-mortem was performed. The 2 paragliders rescued Monday had been Russian Nikita Vasiltsov and Austrian Jakob Krammer. Nikita (38) had crash-landed close to Patalsu peak in Pir Panjal vary close to Manali, round 70km from the place he took off, at an altitude of round 4,000m.A whole bunch of ‘free flyers’ (solo pilots) from all over the world collect in Bir-Billing in Oct yearly, which is taken into account the very best time for cross-country flights. Nonetheless, Bir-Billing has seen frequent paragliding accidents and fatalities.Prior to now decade, over a dozen solo paragliders — largely overseas nationals — have died after taking off from Bir-Billing, six of them within the final three years.