Flying Culture

People, places and adventure

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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Bruce Daniels, paramotor pilot. Photo: Rich Dolan

On launch with Bruce Daniels

Bruce Daniels, 20, is British Paramotor Champion. Jack Sheard spoke to him about his flying career so far
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Wave flying with Gordon Boettger. Photo: Gordon Boettger

The Long Game: Chasing the monster

Gordon Boettger is one of the only pilots on Earth using night vision goggles to fly wave – I went with him
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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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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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Daniel Tyrkas

My Flying Life: Daniel Tyrkas

“I’m hooked for life, I think.” Daniel Tyrkas is in the 'My Flying Life' hot seat and chats about what matters most
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Ben Lewis had been in Bir for three weeks before his incident, which saw him reach more than 7,000m in a cu-nim. Photo: Ben Lewis

“The vario was just screaming”

Canadian pilot Dr Ben Lewis was swept to 7,374m in a storm cloud in Bir in India in October 2024 and lived. He tells his story
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Ben Lewis's tracklog from paragliding in a storm cloud in Bir, India.

‘It was just so strong – there was nothing I could do’

Canadian paraglider pilot Dr Ben Lewis was swept to 7,374m in a storm in the Indian Himalaya. Remarkably, he lived to tell the tale
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Himalayan Griffon vulture

Birds of a feather

"Follow the birds" is age-old advice for pilots. Andy Pag finds out what our feathered friends are thinking
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Paralpinism film wins Kendal Mountain Film award

The French film Pourquoi tu vas là-haut has won the coveted Best Sport prize at the Kendal Mountain Film Competition.
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