Lapland super herder Olof Heikka has given up on a several-hundred year tradition of reindeer shepherding on land — instead choosing a paramotor.

Like a flying cowboy, the 37-year-old daredevil, who lives in the Arctic Tundra at the top of Scandinavia, decided to speed up the exhausting practice of chasing the animals by taking to the air.

As the indigenous people of Sampi, which stretches across the top of Sweden, Norway, Finland and some of Russia, the movements of the free-roaming herds dedicate the entire lives of the Sami. But it’s a monster task as some of the animals can stray several hundreds of miles.

Now Olof has taken the modernization of his lifestyle to a new extreme by strapping himself into a parachute driven by a powered fan attached to his back.

It lets him spot and close in on the animals quickly so he can drive the deer towards ground teams who round the animals up.