Pilots and profiles

Interviews with paraglider pilots and other free flight gurus from around the world

Timo Leonetti in South Africa on 9 January 2023. Photos: Timo Leonetti

Chasing world records in South Africa

We talk to Clément Latour and Timo Leonetti about their 500km paragliding flights and chasing world records in South Africa
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Honorin Hamard: Portrait of a Champion

Honorin Hamard won the Paragliding World Cup Super Final in Valle de Bravo in December 2022 – making him one of the most decorated paraglider pilots ever
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Video interview: Vittorazi paramotor champions 2022

Vittorazi are celebrating 10 years of the Moster engine as well as gold medals in the recent Paramotor World Championships held in Brazil
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Serena Ronchi

Serena Ronchi: Going Big in Brazil

Serena Ronchi won the 2021 Women’s XContest after flying more than 10,000km in a year. She explains how she learnt to fly cross country
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Cedar Wright

Dealing with risk in paragliding

Paragliding, like many adventure sports, is enormously rewarding but also carries high risks. Cedar Wright talks about finding the balance
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Sylvestre Camp: Exploring the Transamazonica from above

Sylvestre Campe is a Brazilian filmmaker who has turned his eye to the Amazon, exploring and filming the 4,000km long Trans-Amazonia Highway from the air
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Manfred Ruhmer

Interview with a champion: Manfred Ruhmer

Louise Joselyn talks to hang gliding legend Manfred Ruhmer ahead of the FAI Class 2 Hang Gliding World Championships 2022
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X-Pyr 2022: Chrigel Maurer – Interview with a Champion

'I'm 40 – and I'm getting better!' Ed Ewing talks in-depth to X-Pyr and Red Bull X-Alps champion Chrigel Maurer ahead of the X-Pyr 2022 – video
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Jean-Yves Fredriksen

Fiddler on the roof: Jean-Yves Fredriksen

Jean-Yves Fredriksen is the fiddler on the roof of the world, exploring the Himalaya alone but always with his violin.
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