Flying Culture

People, places and adventure

Sunset flying in Australia

Allen Weynberg: ‘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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Advance Theta ULS

How to learn the art of vol-bivouac

"The ability to travel over terrain, camp and continue the next day must be as old as humankind itself". Jake Holland talks vol-bivouac
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Chrigel Maurer

Where eagles dare

Till Gottbrath talks to Chrigel Maurer about the regime of “progressive and systematic” training that helped Chrigel get (really) good
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Flying in the Lötschental Valley, Switzerland

Where the wild things are

The Lötschental valley in the Bernese Alps is known for Tschäggattä – frightening figures in wooden masks that cause mayhem at carnival time
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Rhamphorhynchus fossil

when flying reptiles ruled

Natalia Jagielska and her research team at the University of Edinburgh have helped solve the mystery of how pterosaurs first took flight
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Serge Durrant. Photo: Tarquin Cooper

On launch with: Serge Durrant

Serge Durrant won the Sports-class Racing Series 2024 season and also competed in the X-Pyr 2024
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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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Matt Henzi and his dog Oso at home

My flying life: Matt Henzi

The sensei of American paragliding on what matters most
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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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Bill Moyes in May 2007. Photo: Robert Gray, Bill’s grandson

The original Moyes Boy

Bill Moyes was one of the founding fathers of hang gliding. Tarquin Cooper looks back on his life and legacy.
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