The adventurer Horacio Llorens, is always circling, not only because it is his natural habitat, with a paraglider on his shoulders. He also lets the imagination fly. And it is that Horacio Llorens, pilot of Red Bull, became the first paraglider in the world to sail the skies in the middle of an Aurora Borealis. He experienced this feeling in Trømso, Norway, at more than 15 degrees below zero. Impossible challenges do not exist. Literally.

“Thousands of years ago people looked up, saw the lights of the Northern Lights and thought they were magical, they look like clouds that are in front of you, at 500 or 1,000 meters, although in reality they are 15,000 meters above your head” said Horacio Llorens.

Yes, it really is magical. Seeing the Aurora Borealis is a unique experience for anyone who is lucky enough to experience it. Llorens, in addition, can say that he has had an even stranger experience: seeing him doing paragliding, is something simply incredible.

“There were several complications with respect to a normal flight: to start with, there was snow and temperatures that reached 15 below zero, even lower when flying at 300 or 400 meters, Another factor that complicated the project was the made night flights in a terrain unknown to me and, finally, the weight of the paramotor that supposed 50 extra kilograms, with which the pain in the neck, shoulders and back were guaranteed” explained Horacio.

Llorens, from Madrid, five-time champion of the world of acrobatic paragliding, risked his life in this extreme mission. The cold weather and turbulence did not facilitate this adventure, supporting temperatures of 15 degrees below zero on land, near Trømso (Norway) the Spanish pilot with permission from the Government and using his Thor200 paramotor with a Kangook chassis and a motorcycle Polini engine He went to chase the sky. “I wanted to make sure I had a very powerful paramotor, the 200cc engine allowed me to climb every time I wanted to or get out of a hurry,” said Llorens.

After flying the islands of the Pacific, Africa from north to south or crossing the Cauca in Colombia, the challenge of the aurora borealis demanded a detailed forecast of the precise moment to fly. For 10 days, Llorens and his team moved to Norway for the preparations. The flight required special equipment due to the low temperatures and to go over the sea.

As part of the equipment this adventurer used for his safety in this incredible mission he wore a neoprene suit and thermal gloves, which kept his fingers warm enough to maintain precise control over the accelerator; the neoprene suit, it would give 20 minutes (approximately) for the rescuers to get to it if something had failed since most of the flight was done on the water; a powerful paramotor that “gave him the opportunity to go up every time he wanted or to leave difficulties if he needed”, said Llorens himself, and the final piece was battery powered lights to illuminate his platform in the middle of the night.

“I started competing at the age of 16, but with 18 I started to do acrobatics at a professional level, since competing, training, competing, training is my life”, he tells as the origin of all this adventurous life that lead him to overcome Challenges that seem impossible.

In the video Horacio is observed making circles in the sky through the bright green lights of the aurora borealis and although he seems very serene and calm, in fact, he experienced the opposite, thanks to the speed that the paramotor provided, besides of cold and wind conditions.

What has been the worst? The wait. Predicting when Aurora Borealis would make its appearance is not an exact science. “She’s shy, I’ve asked her many times to dance, but it took her time to appear, but when she came out she was a beauty!” Horacio assured.

“Since I was a child I was fixated by superheroes who could fly, I needed to fly through the sky, when I’m in the air I feel like I’m where I should be.”

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