Flying Culture

People, places and adventure

Paragliding with Seb Ospina in Colombia. Photo: Seb Ospina

Adventure Mode: Exploring mountain culture in Colombia

Most XC pilots know about Roldanillo in Colombia, but Jericó and Fredonia is an area further north – and the conditions are different
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Paramotor Patagonia

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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Paragliding in Kenya with Convergence Paragliding. Photo: Photos: Shaun Mousley / Convergence PG

Adventure Mode: Free-flight safari in Kenya

From the well known Kerio Valley to heli-paragliding in the northern Highlands there is huge potential in Kenya
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Fabi Buhl in full flow. Photo: Jake Holland

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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Soaring at the beach in Albania

Living the Dream

Ed Ewing meets Michael Gebert, the adventure pilot who's done it all from hangliding to hike-and-fly racing to teaching and guiding paragliding
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Kyrgyzstan

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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Winter Flying

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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Guillaume Funck's latest brilliant film covers a five-day vol-biv from the Ecrins to Austria with an inspiring 4,000m cloudbase.

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 seen during the Red Bull Wingsuit Foil Project at El Hierro on September 3, 2025. Photo: Sebastien Marko

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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Why I Fly

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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