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Traveling the world. he isn't searching for base jumps for now. at the same time, he is still searching. >> everything that comes with base jumping is absolutely incredible, and i hope i can find a way to fill that gap. but i'm struggling at the moment. a 72-year-old hang glider is flying high until a midair mishap threatens to send him crashing to the ground. >> what do i do now? >> july 5, 2013, hollister, california. 72-year-old lynn lyons has always wanted to fly. >> i had wanted to fly ever since i was young. >> but it wasn't until he was 70 years old that he made the leap. >> you're fl...

>> lyons reaches over to release the tow rope, but nothing happens. >> i pulled it, and it didn't release. okay. pulled it again, didn't release. didn't release. >> lyons sees he's made a mistake, connecting the line to the glider. but he can't fix it now. >> i look, and there's a pin that does the release, and the pin's off to the side, and it's not released. and now i'm in trouble. >> harold johnson watches from the ground. >> i couldn't figure out why he wasn't releasing it. i kept telling myself, release, release. >> instead, the tow line acts like an anchor, pulling lyons down to earth. >...

Flights since. on this day, he's going out on the edge, planning to fly at 1,000 feet, higher than he's attempted before. a gopro camera sits on his wing to record the flight. >> set up the glider, put the harness on, got to be my turn. i attached. when you're towing, you stomp your foot a couple times and herold runs the tow rig, pulls you off the ground. >> 76-year-old harold johnson operates the tow rig. the electric-powered winch uses a winch to create tension on the wire cable. once lyons reaches altitude, he can release the tow line and glide free. >> i towed him up to the end. >> within...

And release his hooked glider. >> we all have a hook knife. and that's for cutting lines when you need to. and for whatever reason, i didn't try to do that. >> he turns to his parachute instead. >> at that point, i was going parachute or die. that where they had told me and everybody else, this is what you do. >> he has trouble releasing the parachute, too. >> i was trying to fly with one hand -- mostly just keep myself in some semblance of order -- and pull with one hand. it didn't come out -- that's not working. pull with two hands -- oh, you've got to pull up, not down. >> the glider is dro...