A British pensioner marked her 100th birthday by setting what is believed to be a new world record after paragliding from the top of a mountain range in Cyprus.
Peggy McAlpine leapt from a 760m peak in the Five Finger mountains in northern Cyprus for a 15-minute tandem flight.
The former accountant, who has two daughters, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, said she felt no nerves at her birthday stunt.
She said she had a wonderful time and would love to do it again but will give it a few years and let someone else have a go at beating the record.
‘If no-one else wants a go, I'll do it again when I am 105,’ Ms McAlpine said.
Strapped into a black and red flight suit with a white crash helmet, the pensioner from Stirling, Scotland, who bungee-jumped from scaffolding aged 70, was serenaded as she came into land by a bagpiper playing Scotland the Brave.
She was handed a glass of champagne on touch-down just outside the village of Karaman by her cheering fans who toasted her success in her bid to enter the record books by become the oldest person to paraglide.
