The faint rustle of nylon fluttering overhead and a rushing shadow startled tourists in Nye Beach last week as a paraglider swooped into Don & Ann Davis Park.

The astonishing spectacle of human flight — under his own power, from straining takeoff to pinpoint landing — drew gasps as Josh Norris skimmed rooftops and sandy berms in search of rising warm columns of air.

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