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Chrigel Maurer: ‘It’s easy to beat me – here’s how’

"Do not think I will simply win again!” In this exclusive interview Chrigel Maurer answers the question everyone is asking
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Red Bull X-Alps 2025: This year’s edition covers 1,280km and involves 17 turnpoints and three via ferratas. Via ferrata means ‘iron path’ in Italian and involves using fixed cables and ladders to move through steep ground. On the right, Japan’s Emoto Yuji on the Paternkofel on 21 June 2023 Photo: Lukas Pilz

Red Bull X-Alps 2025: The toughest ever?

At 1,283km long the route of this year's Red Bull X-Alps is the longest ever – and pilots also expect it to be much more gruelling
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Chrigel Maurer: Artist of the Air

Der Künstler des Himmels - The Artist of the Air – is a six-minute profile of one of paragliding's greatest all time pilots
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Where eagles dare

Till Gottbrath talks to Chrigel Maurer about the regime of “progressive and systematic” training that helped Chrigel get (really) good
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My Flying Life: Chrigel Maurer and Peter von Känel 

The two adventure pilots talk about the gear they took on their X-Peaks  adventure – and what really mattered 
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Peter von Känel and Chrigel Maurer photo: Ágata Dominguez

Fly, Hike, Climb, Repeat…

Tarquin Cooper talks to Chrigel Maurer and Peter von Känel about climbing-and-flying all 82 Alpine 4,000m mountains in less than eight weeks
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Cross Country Issue 252: Sep / Oct 2024

“Every journey starts with a single step,” goes the saying. From the X-Peaks to flying from K2, here's what's inside the latest issue. Available to read online in full.
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Chrigel Maurer and Peter von Känel climb-and-fly all 82 Alpine 4,000m peaks in just 72 days – a first and a new record

X-Peaks: ‘An unbelievable two months’

Chrigel Maurer and Peter von Känel climb-and-fly all 82 Alpine 4,000m peaks in just 51 days – a first and a new record
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Launching at the start of the X-Pyr in 2022. Photo: Marcus King

X-Pyr 2024: The Adventure Race Returns

The X-Pyr 2024, one of the world's premier hike-and-fly adventure races, kicks off on Sunday 23 June drawing pilots from around the globe
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XPeaks: Climb-and-fly all 4,000ers

Chrigel Maurer and Peter Von Känel kicked off their mission to climb all 4,000m+ peaks in the Alps, with the Aletschhorn (4194m) on 11 June
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