Flying Culture

People, places and adventure

Charlie King flies above the Écrins

Testivol de Pelvoux 2026

Held on the edge of the beautiful Écrins massif for a second year conditions for pilots were near perfect
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Patagonia dryline

The Patagonian Dryline

Kris Holub and friends flew a little-flown 300km convergence line deep in Argentine Patagonia
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Paragliding in Bhutan

Land of the thunder dragon

My first real contact with Bhutan was about 25 years ago when my friend Sean White showed me his documentary, Into the Thunder Dragon.
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Laurie Genovese in 2023 Red Bull X-Alps

‘Redefining the race’

We talk to two race directors putting safety, female pilots and fun at the core of hike-and-fly
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Flying a parakite on a slalom race track during the world's first parakite competition

Watch: Parakiting’s first ski-fly comp

This video from filmmaker Hugo Lami looks back at the inaugural Birday event held earlier this season in Val d'Isère.
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Julian Andres Carreño

On Launch With: Julian Andres Carreño 

The Colombian competition pilot and guide talks about his paragliding career from the early days to becoming an instructor
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Joanna Di Grigoli

My Flying Life: Joanna Di Grigoli

The Venezuelan competition and cross-country pilot on what matters most
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Chrigel Maurer flying out from the Barrhorn July 2025. Photo: Tobi Dimmler

Climb (and fly) every mountain

Before Aaron Durogati won Red Bull X-Alps the joke used to be that before you could win the race you first had to come from Switzerland.
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Nico Aubert paramotors across Andalucia

Trans-Andalusian Express

Paramotor pilot Nico Aubert has successfully completed the Andalusian chapter of his World Arcs project in southern Spain.
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Crossing Öræfajökull glacier by paramotor

Portfolio: Ryan Southwell Over Iceland

Welcome to Iceland. The incredible land of Norse gods, glaciated mountains and temperamental volcanoes
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