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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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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On Launch With: Max Loidl

Max Loidl tells Joanna Di Grigoli why there really is No Off Season
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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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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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Queensland, Australia

Head in the Clouds: How to… Not be eaten

Allen Weynberg travels to North Queensland where crocodile danger signs hint that this is "not your average paragliding destination."
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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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Flying in front of the launch at Mungyeong

The magic of‭ ‬Mungyeong

We head to Mungyeong in South Korea, and the FAI Asian-Oceanic Paragliding Championships to discover what racing in Asia is like
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The 1970s hike-and-fly revolution

“One of the most dangerous moments in my life.”Thomas Finsterwalder on how it was back in the 70s flying hang gliders from high mountains
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