Flying Culture

People, places and adventure

Peter von Känel and Chrigel Maurer photo: Ágata Dominguez

Fly, Hike, Climb, Repeat…

Tarquin Cooper talks to Chrigel Maurer and Peter von Känel about climbing-and-flying all 82 Alpine 4,000m mountains in less than eight weeks
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Launching on Mount Saint Augustine

Project Volcano

'You don’t often get the chance to paraglide from a perfect volcano in the middle of the ocean.' Paul Guschlbauer goes volcano hopping in Alaska
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Autumnal flying

The Long Game: Taking the Aesthetic Line

'As another scorching summer comes to a close I am getting excited about my favourite time of year: fall,' writes Gavin McClurg
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Hike-and-Fly record attempt in Norway

Under the Midnight Sun

On 3 July Norway’s Erlend Ukvitne attempted to break the 24-hour hike and fly record of 17,534m set recently by France’s Tanguy Renaud-Goud
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‘It was A day to remember forever’

On 9 July Galen Kirkpatrick broke the US / North American FAI Triangle record, she tells the story of that day
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K2 flown for the first time

Benjamin Védrines, Jean-Yves Fredriksen, Liv Sansoz and Zeb Roche caught the ultimate weather window and flew from the summit of K2
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Jake Holland paragliding in the Charakusa Valley in the Hunza region of Pakistan

In-flight movie: Paragliding Pakistan

Fresh back from a trip to the Karakoram in Pakistan, Jake Holland shares what it's like to fly in the Charakusa Valley in the Hunza region.
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Marko Milutinović

Europeans 2024: ‘I heard lines popping and the glider ripping…’

One of the unluckiest – or luckiest – pilots in the Europeans 2024 was Serbia’s Marko Milutinović who was hit from above by another pilot...
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Europeans 2024 in Pegalajar, Spain

European Championships 2024: One to remember

The FAI European Paragliding Championships in Pegalajar, Spain saw ten tasks and knocked more than 1,000km flown. We headed to olive country
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Simon Oberrauner on the road during the X-Pyr.

Simon’s X-Pyr Sprint Finish

Simon Oberrauner had to run, run, run to win this year’s X-Pyr Hike-and-Fly race. Tarquin Cooper spoke to him after he made goal.
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