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500k days: Big distance in Brazil
The season in Brazil was a good one in 2025, with Seb Benz recording the longest flight in the country – almost touching 600k
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Paramotoring Patagonia
Pilot and photographer Jeff Hamann braved epic logistics, officialdom and the region’s notorious bad weather to pull off a spectacular flight over the San Rafael Glacier in Chilean Patagonia
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The Long Game: Making friends with the invisible
What skills can other adventure sports give us for flying? And what skills can pilots take back to those sports? Gavin McClurg explains
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Adventure Mode: Going XC in the wilds of Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan is a mostly unexplored paragliding playground with high potential. Léonard Siclon reveals the possibilities.
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Watch: Winter Flying Magic
Finalist film at the Austrian Aero Club awards captures the beauty and magic of ski, hike-and-fly in wintry landcapes.
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Watch: Guillaume Funck’s five-day Ecrins vol-biv
Guillaume Funck's latest brilliant film covers a five-day vol-biv from the Ecrins to Austria with an inspiring 4,000m cloudbase. "Insane!"
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Peter Salzmann soars like a bird on wingsuit foil
Peter Salzmann has succeeded in making the first sustained, altitude-gaining wingsuit soaring flight in El Hierro, in Spain’s Canary Islands.
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Watch: Why I Fly by Jean-Baptiste Chandelier
This is the much-anticipated award-winning film from the pilot Jean-Baptiste Chandelier, the so-called "king of paragliding movies".
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Watch: UK’s Three Peaks Challenge – by hike-and-fly
Four pilots who only just met take on the iconic three peaks challenge – linking the UK's Snowdon, Scafell and Ben Nevis in under 24 hrs
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The Art of the X-Alps
Felix Wölk has been an official Red Bull X-Alps photographer for 20 years. He selects his six favourite images from the 2025 event
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