When you look at mountains like this, do you think, ‘Td love to climb that!’ or are you one of those people who say, ‘Anyone who wants to climb that is mad!’? These are Trango Towers (6,286 m) in the Karakoram in Pakistan. British climber Martin Boysen tried to climb them in 1975 and nearly died. In 1976 he tried again and became the first climber to reach the top. In 1990 Japanese climber Takeyasu Minamiura climbed to the top of one side of the mountain. But that wasn't his main aim. He wanted to paraglide to the bottom.On 9 September Minamiura jumped off the top of Trango Towers, but his paraglider hitthe wall and he fell forty-five metres until the glider caught on a piece of rock and saved his life. And there he hung. The fall broke his glasses, but he was OK. When his hands stopped shaking, he took his radio and contacted his friends. He asked them to send a helicopter to rescue him.