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Creak has eight years’ experience as an arborist in New Zealand and his native Britain. While sometimes called upon to retrieve drones stuck in trees, the two paragliding events within a three-month period had been the first time dealing with such a rescue. Creak also helped retrieve a friend’s paragliding kit when they crash-landed in trees near the Barnicoat Range in January. While that paraglider was able to extract himself from the tree, Creak scaled it to retrieve the paragliding kit left behind. In the most recent incident, the man spent around two hours in the tree. Creak used ...

A paraglider got stuck in a tree for after a mishap near Nelson. A paraglider was left hanging in a tree for about two hours when he got stuck in the hills behind the Nelson suburb of Stoke. Emergency crews, including Police, fire crews from Stoke and Nelson and an arborist responded to the incident at around 12.35pm on Sunday. The paraglider’s white canopy was visible from the road and residences in Stoke, prompting a number of calls to 111. Fenz southern communications manager Daniel Reilly said the man involved was stuck “a fair way up the tree” near the top of the Marsden Valley ...

Police, Fire and Emergency NZ and St John were all on scene. The Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter was called to the incident at 12.13pm. Braden Fastier/Stuff The canopy of a paraglider can be seen in pine trees near on the Barnicoat Range. Pilot Colby Tyrrell​ said the paraglider had gone into pines just below the Barnicoat Hill launch point and he imagined it would have been a hard landing. Crew had been prepared to use the winch to access the man, but the helicopter was able to land on top of the hill at the launch point. The injured man was transported up the hill in a St John ve...