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Chrigel Maurer interview Red Bull X-Alps 2025

Red Bull X-Alps 2025: Chrigel ‘more prepared than ever before’

Watch: Chrigel Maurer on his preparation, the route, equipment, other pilots, and why he thinks a rookie could beat him "quite easily"
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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 Prologue podum

Red Bull X-Alps 2025: Maxime Pinot wins the Prologue

Maxime Pinot won the Prologue at the Red Bull X-Alps, which is the short one-day warm-up race ahead of the main event
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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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Hannes Maier, chief technical officer at the Red Bull X-Alps in front of his live-tracking screens at race HQ in Fuschl am See, Austria. Photo: Christian Lorenz/zooom

Insight: Live Tracking

The live tracking system for the Red Bull X-Alps works on a mesh system and promises better coverage than ever. We take a look
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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

‘It’s out-of-this-world hard’

Explore the challenges of the 2025 X-Alps Route. Breaking down the longest route ever with insights from Tom Payne
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Red Bull X-Alps what's in the bag? Photo: Raphael Garagnon / @raphgara

What’s in the (X-Alps) bag?

What are pilots flying in this year's Red Bull X-Alps adventure race? We find out what wings and harnesses will be in their bags
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Paragliding above the Streif in Austria. Photo: Marcus King

Destination: The Streif, Kitzbühel, Austria

Hike-and-fly the legendary downhill ski run on the Hahnenkamm above Kitzbühel, Austria
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Michi Maurer and Chrigel Maurer fly acro next to the Matterhorn. Photo: Andi Busslinger

Cross Country Issue 257: May / June 2025

We delve into the Red Bull X-Alps, the course, the kit and explore the new live tracking. Aside from that we ask “What if?” and much more.
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