Between a cloud and a hard place

A hang-gliding instructor mysteriously fell out of his two-seater aircraft and plunged to his death, leaving his shocked student to land alone, in one of five deaths of extreme sports enthusiasts in the French Alps at the weekend.A wingsuit jumper, two rock climbers, and a paraglider were the other four French national victims in the series of deaths that came as holiday-makers flocked to the mountain range.