The day was dying and I was unable to climb high enough on the last mountain before Krimml. In desperation I tried to just go for it but it was late and the day was almost dead, with no valley wind it was a long shot. Cross country flying is aerial chess: you have to […]
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In Cross Country issue 154 we went deep undercover, sending in a French-speaking bi-lingual spy to the French Team Training Camp to find out what makes the top tier of France’s paragliding pilots so good. Le answer? Mathurin. Didier Mathurin is the professional coach helping to drive the success of some of Team France’s best […]
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Armin Harich set a new German flatland record in April at 302.9km and is the subject of our My Line spread in the latest issue of Cross Country. My Line is exactly that – it’s an insight into how pilots fly, what little tricks they know, what insights they’ve won over their years flying. Armin, […]
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“Competitions are great for learning fast and seeing what is possible on any given day,” says Jonny Durand, multiple Australian hang gliding champion and winner of numerous comps around the world. “You get to fly with lots of pilots and learn from watching others.” The old adage that you’ll learn more in a week […]
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“Thermal flying was difficult but the soaring was amazing, although taking off and landing in such strong wind proved to be very technical,” explains Tom de Dorlodot about flying the islands of French Polynesia. He, Horacio Llorens and a film and photography crew spent several months flying and sailing through the region, hiking up […]
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When Andy Pag met up with Cross Country in March he was still wearing his duvet jacket from Pokhara to ward off the chill of an early spring wind in England. The dust on it stood out against the clean blacks and greys of the city folk milling around. Sitting down over hot coffee […]
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It’s comp season in the north and that means pointing your toes and banging it hard on the bar, right? Well, maybe not. We round up 10 of the best competitions and events around the world that combine a healthy does of competition with a large slice of fun while mixing it up with […]
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Fresh back from the Kerio Valley in Kenya Gregory Knudson talks us through what you need to do to set a world record A year ago, after breaking a world record for a speed over an out-and-return course of 100 kilometres, friends threatened to run out and buy the Guinness Book of World Records. […]
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Some 214 hills make up England’s beautiful Lake District. Bagging them by foot is a popular past time for walkers, but no one had ever done them by air until Simon Blake took up the challenge… In the far north west of England, in the county of Cumbria, lies an ancient landscape. Scoured over […]
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Francisco Javier Reina Lagos kept his head as the Superfinal descended into political chaos. Just how cool can this cat be? In all the controversy over the Paragliding World Cup Superfinal in Brazil in January you’d be forgiven if you’d forgotten there was actually a competition on. While manufacturers and the PWCA wrangled over the […]
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