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ELLY NU’MA ZAHROTIGHEA SYABILLANERI FITRIYANI

Parachutist, 81, Wins Place of Honour at Jump.

Even expert were a little surprised when a man of 62 turned up

the parachute training school and said he was interested in learning to become a parachuistist.

They agreed to put him through the course, but only after giving him a series of tests to prove that he was fit enough.

Mr. Archie Macfarlane completed the course succesfully, surprising everyone with his agility and toughness.

A few weeks later, when he was ready for his first jump. He confessed to the chief instructor: “ i told you a bit of a lie. I’m really 75.”

That was six years ago and yesterday Archie Macfarlane made his 18th jump. He was given the place of honour-first out of the plane- at a weekend meeting for parachuistists over 40 years old.

Archiest’s interest in parachuting is just one of the hobbies that his wife to worry about. He also enjoys motorcycling and mountaincering.

Last year he fell while climbing on Snowdon, and had to be rescued by helicopter.

His daughter said, “Sometimes i think he ought to give it all up. But as my mother says, so long as he’s happy, it’s better than being micerable. He tried hang-gliding once and said he thought it was a bit too easy.”

Now Archie is thinking of taking up water-skiing.

Archie Macfarlane started parachuting when he was 75, and he has done 18 parachute jumps over the last six years. Recently he was given the place of honour at a parachutists meeting. When he started parachuting, he told a lie about his age. His wife and daughter are worried about him.

RUNNING AND CLIMBINGI’m interested in sport, especially athletics, and I run seven or eight kilometers everyday. I particularly enjoy cross-country running, where you have to run across fields, jump over streams and so on. While I’m running I think about all sorts of things, and at the end of a run I’m sometimes easy to find that I’ve managed to solve a problem that was on my mind. Next year I’m going to try the London Marathon. It’s a long, hard race 26 miles, or 42 kilometers, and you have to be tough to finish, but I very much want to do it. I worry a bit about getting old, and I’d like to prove to myself that I’m still almost as fit as I was twenty years ago.I’m interested in mountaineering as well as running. I’ll never become an expert climber, but I know what I’m doing in the mountains. I completed a course in snow and ice climbing when I was younger, and I’ve done a series of successfully climbs in the Alps during the last few years. My wife doesn’t share my interest in mountains. She agreed to go climbing with me once, but she found that she felt ill as soon as she got above 1000 metres.

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