Flying Culture

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Tom Cruise launches his speed glider in the Lake District for Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1. Photo: Mission Impossible

What is speed flying and how can I do it like Tom Cruise?

What is speed flying and how do I get into speed flying like Tom Cruise? Here's the lowdown...
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Eli Egger prepares to launch from the Paternkofel, Italy on June 20, 2023. Photo: Lukas Pilz / Red Bull Content Pool

The evolution of the Red Bull X-Alps

Race watcher and former Red Bull X-Alps athlete Tom Payne on how the race has changed – and why that's not a bad thing
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Tommy Friedrich. Photo: Marcus King

Red Bull X-Alps: Tommy Friedrich

Tommy Friedrich is literally the posterboy of the 2023 Red Bull X-Alps – what can we learn from one of the youngest pilots in the race?
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Chrigel Maurer ahead of the Red Bull X-Alps 2023. Photo: Marcus King

Red Bull X-Alps 2023: Chrigel Maurer Pre-Race interview

Seven-time Red Bull X-Alps winner Chrigel Maurer shares his thoughts about this year's race, the route and that last-minute team change.
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New Way Up climb and fly in Pakistan. Photo: Jake Holland

New Way Up: Climb-and-fly in Pakistan

Join pro climber Fabi Buhl, Will Sim and Jake Holland as they take Himalayan climbing and paragliding to a new level in the Karakoram
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No Way! Jean-Baptiste Chandelier does it again

Jean-Baptiste Chandelier takes his unique low-flying, ground-skimming art combining paragliding and film-making to a whole new level
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Home Sweet Home by Anthony Komarnicki

Home Sweet Home: Bike& Fly adventure

Home Sweet Home is the film of Anthony Komarnicki's backyard bike-and-fly adventure in the French Alps in October 2019
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Juraj Koreň in New Zealand

Solo New Zealand traverse

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Paramotoring the Amazon with Raphael Laghi

We talk to Raphael Laghi, a Brazilian paragliding and paramotoring guide who specialises in flying and guiding paramotoring in the Amazon
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Parahawking in Nepal with Jess Love

In praise of vultures: humankind’s best friend?

The birds so many of us regularly fly with are nature's early-warning system – and are sacred to many people, writes Esther Kettel
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