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10 Years Ago: Didier Favre

Stephen Winkworth remembers the hang gliding CAP 1111 - the great trans-Alpine flight of the poet-vagabond of vol-bivouac, Didier Favre
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Paraboarding at the Dune du Pyla

Take two of my favourite sports, paragliding and kite surfing, put me on a beach with Fabrice Tripier Mandancin, the European free style snow kite champion, and you can be sure something silly will happen. By Matt Taggart.
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Adventure: Top-landing Mont Blanc 2003

David Casartelli tells the story of the day in 2003 paragliders top-landed Mont Blanc
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Mike Kung crosses the English Channel by paraglider

Limits? What limits? Matt Gerdes shakes his head in disbelief at Mike Kung's latest feat: crossing the English Channel by paraglider
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Hang gliding and paragliding: Politics of insurance

Are we as hang glider and paraglider pilots an endangered species? Ian Blackmore investigates one of the main threats to our continued existence
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Hang gliding techniques: Fly faster

In the second part of his series on cross country and competition hang gliding, Christian Ciech lifts the veil on some of the strategies and techniques needed for flying faster
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The search for Scotty Marion

On Friday August 8 2003 Scotty Marion took off on a cross-country flight from Ebenalp near Appenzell, Switzerland, and he didn't return from the flight. Helicopter searchers have looked for him this week with no success.
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There I Was: Bungee jumping from a tandem (doh!)

Bungee jumping from a tandem paraglider shouldn't be too hard, should it? Unfortunately, the landing part is trickier... Semih Sahir gives a bounce by bounce account
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Arrested: Dark Times in Deepest Africa

Two pilots get more than they bargain for when African troops arrest them for paragliding
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Pilot profile: My year, by Scotty Marion

Hugh Miller meets Scotty Marion to get the inside scoop of the US paragliding star's awesome year. Published in 2003
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