The Nissan Outdoor Games is back for its sixth consecutive summer. Five teams of sportspeople and filmmakers will each make a five-minute film, this time in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France. The fifth team’s director’s chair is still vacant – Julbo are running a competition to fill this role.
Read more20th Century Fox have released the trailer to next Spring’s 3D animated movie, Rio. featuring macaws, the Christ statue and hang gliders it looks set to be a huge hit.
Read moreHave your say: Sky Gods for Hire in Cross Country issue 129 argued that flying guides could help hang glider and paraglider pilots skip weeks of D.I.Y learning. But it also argued you want a sky god for a guide, not a cowboy and asked “Is it time for an internationally recognised standard for fly-guides?”
Read moreThe European Paragliding Championships in Abtenau, Austria, will be the first major competition to feature ‘real-time’ live tracking
Read moreManfred Ruhmer is the new Class 2 hang gliding world champion, following two weeks of atrocious weather at the Women’s and Class 2 Hang Gliding World Championships at Tegelberg, Germany.
Read moreThe Phoenix 1 paraglider wheelchair, created by ABLE and the University of Utah, is to be unveiled on the US’s National Hang Gliding and Paragliding Day – Saturday 29 May 2010.
Read moreThe FIA El Yelmo International Air film festival in Andalucia, Spain, takes place on 1 – 4 July 2010. The deadline for submissions to the film and photo contests is 18 June.
Read moreIn the latest video from Vimeo user ‘Frigorifix’, viewers are taken up (very) close to ITV’s mini paraglider the Bip-Bip, as pilots enjoy some gentle high-wind coastal fun.
Read moreThe Himalayan Odyssey paragliding expedition has ended with members of the team having flown 1,100 km of the Indian and Nepalese Himalaya in 48 days.
Read more‘Norway is a rock.’ Nordic stars reveal how to go big in the wilds of Finland, Sweden and Norway. PLUS FREE 100-page travel guide
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