Vol-Biv

Damien Pattou's film is beautifully made and a real insight into the art of mountain paragliding. Immerse yourself – and then plan your own adventure.

Marcus and Charlie King look at the big range of wings available outside standard paragliders

The Puma is Gin's new lightweight hike-and-fly competition racer. It's an 86-cell two-liner with EN-D certification, based on the Leopard but a kilo lighter

Antoine Boisselier's hour-long film about his 2017 vol-bivouac crossing of the Alps from France to Croatia is now available to watch in full, for free

It’s a monster mission – to fly the length of the Alps. As the Red Bull X-Alps looms into view, Auréliane Ghigi and Francois le Hen reveal how last year they planned and flew their very own 950km Alpine vol-bivouac adventure...

'Life becomes a blissful routine. Fly, camp, eat, sleep and fly again. Every two or three days we’d try to land at a place where the truck could meet us so we can restock food and water and charge batteries. Below us the terrain is in a constant state of awesome change.'

For those fans of multi-day adventures and vol-bivouac flying, Primus' new lightweight and wind-resistant stove, the EtaSolo, may be of interest.