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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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Flying a parakite on a slalom race track during the world's first parakite competition

Watch: Parakiting’s first ski-fly comp

This video from filmmaker Hugo Lami looks back at the inaugural Birday event held earlier this season in Val d'Isère.
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Chrigel Maurer flying out from the Barrhorn July 2025. Photo: Tobi Dimmler

Climb (and fly) every mountain

Before Aaron Durogati won Red Bull X-Alps the joke used to be that before you could win the race you first had to come from Switzerland.
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Nico Aubert paramotors across Andalucia

Trans-Andalusian Express

Paramotor pilot Nico Aubert has successfully completed the Andalusian chapter of his World Arcs project in southern Spain.
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Crossing Öræfajökull glacier by paramotor

Portfolio: Ryan Southwell Over Iceland

Welcome to Iceland. The incredible land of Norse gods, glaciated mountains and temperamental volcanoes
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The Long Game

The Long Game: Taking a Step Back

“There will always be risk.” Unpicking the statistics of safety and our sport
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Ariel Zlatkovski. Photo: Jorge Atramiz

Project 100: Ariel Zlatkovski’s incredible XC challenge

Imagine flying one-hundred 100km flights in 12 months – that's a 100k flight every three or four days. Ariel Zlatkovski set out to do just that
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Caucau Valley, Colombia

On tour in Colombia’s Cauca Valley

Marcus King joins Seb Ospina and crew for a paragliding safari around some of Colombia’s greatest flying sites
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