Adventure and inspiration

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Nathan Longhurst

NZ’S 100 Great Peaks climb-and-fly challenge

Nathan Longhurst set out in November 2024 to solo climb-and-fly every summit on The New Zealand Alpine Club’s 100 Great Peaks list
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Sunset flying in Australia

Head in the Clouds: ‘My heart is beating’

Learning to paraglide in Queensland, Australia, in 2025 is very different to Allen Weynberg's experiences in North Wales back in the '90s
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Looking across to the Aiguille Verte

A new puzzle to play

Jake Holland and Fred Souchon tackle a classic Alpine route by paraglider – and offer their top tips on how to launch in high mountains
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Pierre Marques watches in wonder as the Tsuchinshan-Atlas comet passes by over Corsica. It won’t be back for another 80,000 years. This photo was shot in one frame. Photo: Jacques Paul-Stefani

How I got the shot: the Tuschinshan-Atlas comet

Photographer Jacques Paul-Stefani explains how he took the remarkable Opening Shot photograph featured in Cross Country 254
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Paramotor

Mission air to air

Bastienne Wentzel speaks to those involved in a remarkable partnership between international botanists and paramotor pilots in Peru
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Ollie Carr flying in the Karakoram

The Karakoram, my way

What does it take to fly in the Karakoram if you’re not Aaron Durogati, Tom de Dorlodot or Damien Lacaze? Ollie Carr finds out
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Valerie Burk, deep in the Dolomites

A trip that changed me

Flying trips can change you in profound ways as a pilot and also as a person. We asked pilots to tell us about “a trip that changed them”
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Paramotoring the pyramids in Egypt. Photo: Matias Nombarasco

Paramotoring: Flying the Egyptian pyramids

For those visiting Egypt the pyramids are a must-see – but for those of us drawn to the skies on a paramotor, it is even more magnificent
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Mexico's David Liano flies from the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. Photo: David Liano

Kilimanjaro calling

Linda Willemse is the go-to person for arranging free-flight adventures in East Africa and runs regular expeditions to Kilimanjaro (5,895m)
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Hiking and speedflying the Cherry Canyon logging trail during a Speedmo event last year in Utah, USA. Photo: Mack Lambert

Welcome to: the new world of speedmo

Race up, fly down ... Like skimo is ski mountaineering, speedmo is speedfly-mountaineering. Jack Sheard gets an insight
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