Podcast: Squash Falconer Flies from Mont Blanc

Squash-FalconerBritish female mountaineer and paraglider pilot, Squash Falconer, recently achievement a long-time ambition to climb and fly from the top of Mt Blanc, Europe’s highest peak.

Travelling from the UK to Chamonix by motorbike with the wing on her back, Squash realised her dream in September, with British ex-pat Annecy mountain guide Irwyn Jehu of Annecy Paraguides.

Cross Country magazine’s Ed Ewing gets the low-down.

Read more about Squash’s trip here.

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  1. Hike and fly Mont Blanc: Squash Falconer paraglides from the summit of Europe's highest mountain | Cross Country Magazine - November 16, 2009

    [...] wasn’t easy going, as she reveals in this podcast. On their first attempt to summit she fell, pulled Irwyn with her and only stopped after some [...]

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