XCmag

‘It’s endless summer, we can fly every day,’ says Frank Brown. With hundreds of site, thousands of pilots and sunshine year round Brazil has it all – and in spades

‘Back in the game!’ Or is he? Hang gliding superstar Manfred Ruhmer came back to comp flying this year after five years away. Ed Ewing meets the most decorated man in hang gliding

‘It was windy all the time - and turbulent.' Hugh Miller gets the inside scoop on winner Chrigel Maurer and the incredible Alpine flying that gripped the free-flight world this summer

Since his first flights Indian pilot Adie Kumar had a dream: to fly across the Indian Himalaya...

When the rain starts to fall in the next Red Bull X-Alps, one man will be smiling. Bob Drury meets the Romanian endurance fiend Toma Coconea

Ten tasks over twelve days made the 2009 Paragliding World Championships in Mexico the most demanding, and the fairest, FAI event in the history of the sport

On 14 December 2008 Nevil Hulett lined up his knowledge of the South African sky with his even greater paragliding experience and had his girlfriend tow him out of a dusty track with his 4X4 truck. Seven and a half hours later he landed with the world’s first 500 km paraglider flight beneath his belt, and two world records

Nerves of steel, the reactions of a Jedi and the mind of a scientist: Marcus King visits Paratest on the shores of Lake Geneva to discover if he’s got what it takes to be a professional test pilot

Sometimes two thermals join up to make an even stronger core...