Colin Rathbun

On launch with: Colin Rathbun

The pilot from the British Virgin Islands shares his journey to paragliding competition pilot

7 September, 2026, by Tarquin Cooper

I’m from the British Virgin Islands, this little territory in the Caribbean. My mother’s French and when I was a kid and living in the South of France, I remember going to Gourdon, and seeing a paraglider. I had no idea what it was, but I thought that was pretty cool.

Before my wife and I got married, we were in the south of France and we were like, let’s go try this. And we went to Saint André to do a tandem and we kind of fell in love with it but because we lived in the British Virgin Islands, there was no flying.

Some years later for our honeymoon we asked people to donate so...

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