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Flying Culture

People, places and adventure

Sketchy launch on Artesonraju

Fight or Flight

“No one I know has launched a paraglider on belay before.” Christian Black pushes hard in Peru
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Flying the coast of Java

Bali High

“When it rains, it pours.” Ignoring advice Ole Dalen heads to the Indonesian islands in the rainy season
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Australian flatlands

Head in the clouds: Burning the Midnight Oil

Allen Weynberg flies – and sings – his heart out in New South Wales
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Hike-and-fly in the Lofoten Islands

Love and loss in the Lofoten Islands

“I did what any sane person would do.” Mymy Heissat tells Tarquin Cooper about learning to fly in the Arctic
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Íñigo Redín

My Flying Life: Íñigo Redín  

The Spanish pilot and competition organiser on what matters most
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Thomas Lone on the summit of Everest

On Launch With: Thomas Lone

“I thought I was hallucinating.” Thomas Lone recalls seeing Antoine Girard above him on Broad Peak
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Paragliding in Bhutan

Land of the thunder dragon

My first real contact with Bhutan was about 25 years ago when my friend Sean White showed me his documentary, Into the Thunder Dragon.
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Charlie King flies above the Écrins

Testivol de Pelvoux 2026

Held on the edge of the beautiful Écrins massif for a second year conditions for pilots were near perfect
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Patagonia dryline

The Patagonian Dryline

Kris Holub and friends flew a little-flown 300km convergence line deep in Argentine Patagonia
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Laurie Genovese in 2023 Red Bull X-Alps

‘Redefining the race’

We talk to two race directors putting safety, female pilots and fun at the core of hike-and-fly
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