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Spanish acro paraglider pilot Horacio Llorens has broken the world record for Infinite Tumbles. He executed 281 successive revolutions on Saturday 5 December in Nepal after D-bagging from a helicopter at 5,000 m...

Paragliding photographer Felix Wölk leaves the chilled-out lakeside retreat of Pokhara behind and gets too high, too fast in the big mountains of Nepal

Spain’s Xevi Bonet won the La Palma Challenge Pre-PWC and Open paragliding comp, which finished on 3 December after three valid tasks. He was flying a Gin Boomerang 6...

Tumbled mid flight, Adam Parer found himself separated from his glider and in free fall cocooned in his hang gliding harness...

Johnny Perez, an Argentinian pilot living in Miami USA, scooped the top prize in the Cross Country Magazine Subscribers’ Prize Draw on 1 Dec winning himself an Advance paraglider of his choice. Johnny, an XC mag subscriber for five years, said, “When I got the news I called Cross Country. A second later I was jumping all over the place. The people in my office thought I was crazy!”

The Red Bull X-Alps 2009 was the most incredible yet. Paragliding and hiking 800 km across the Alps. The DVD is out now

The first international Women's Paragliding Open will be held in Ager, Spain, from 21 - 28 August, organisers have announced...