FUTURE HEROES
Bright young things tumbling in. Marcus King meets some of the acro world’s hottest young stars: Emmanuel Manon, Jeremy Bailly, Marvin Ogger and Celine Barman
GAME OF SHADOWS
‘Burgsdorf is not even on the map.’ Empty desert, 6,000 m base, and 300 km out-and-returns, but tinged with tragedy. Vianney Tisseau returned with incredible images from this season’s Namibian Record Encampment
PILGRIMAGE
Jerôme Maupoint turns his lens on some of South Korea’s finest flying scenery and discovers the ‘thermals, sushi and rice fields’ in Gin Gliders’ back yard
ELISA HOUDRY
She stormed the competition world last year to become Women’s World Champion and now wants to do it all over again. Caroline Frinault meets Elisa Houdry
FARMER FLY
What do you do when you want a career in paragliding? Simple, buy your own company. Konrad Görg talks to Bob Drury about why he bought failing French brand Aircross and life as a cash crop farmer
XC FILES
Bob Drury explains how to mend a broken line on the hill and Honza Rejmanek explores dust devils
COCOONED
To cocoon or not to cocoon? J C Skiera gets into bed with Kortel’s Kamasutra ll, Advance’s Impress 2+ and Sup’Air’s Vamp
Plus a gallery from Nick Greece aka Nick’d’Greek, all the news from the CIVL Plenary in Lausanne, speed gliding action from Les Arcs and Ama Dablam and the latest products for paragliding and hang gliding.
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