Thomas Theurillat and Chrigel Maurer on the raft in Monaco. Photo: Olivier Laugero / Red Bull Content Pool
The latest issue of Cross Country magazine is out now, and is essential reading for anyone who wants to know more about Chrigel Maurer and how he flies.
Cross Country’s Hugh Miller has been the Red Bull X-Alps race reporter for a decade, and has a unique insight into what the X-Alps is really like.
So when he sat down to interview Chrigel after his historic third win this summer, he knew exactly what to ask.
“To say he’s an eagle, he’s untouchable, is a great compliment to Chrigel – but it also conveniently lets the rest of us off the hook from even trying to fly as well as him,” says Hugh.
“That may be a dream, but the truth of it is there’s much we can learn from Christian Maurer.”
The resulting interview offers a unique insight into how Chrigel flies, with great practical advice on how you too can ‘Fly more like Chrigel’. The way Maurer explains it, it doesn’t seem all that complicated!
Elsewhere the magazine is packed. Including:
• Spectacular Tristan Shu Gallery
• Arduino Persello flies 300km out and return
• Adrian Thomas wins Brits again
• Six pages of new wings and gear
• Ozone Chabre Open
• Mads Syndergaard on the Paragliding World Championships
• Klaudia Bulgakow is our Naked Pilot
• Bruce Goldsmith on flying instrument-free
• Honza Rejmanek analyses the weather during the Red Bull X-Alps 2013
• 30 Years of Flytec
• XCFiles: Flying in the rain
Plus
• Interviews with X-Alps athletes Clement Latour, Antoine Girard, Jon Chambers, Aaron Durogati and Martin Muller
• Beyond the Rohtang: Alexey Druzhinin flies an eight-day 420km solo vol-biv through the Lahual and Spiti Valleys in the Indian Himalaya
• Brothers in Arms: Marvin Ogger and Tim Alongi introduce the Twisted Brohook
• Top of the World: An interview with new Paragliding World Champion Jeremie Lager
• Confessions of an XC Hound: Gavin McClurg smashes the North American footlaunch paragliding record
• Review: GIN Atlas (EN B)
• Review: Swing Mistral 7 (EN B)
• Review: LiveTrack24 tracker
• Final Glide: J C Skiera on the day he did the X-Alps
The magazine is out now digitally and is in the post on its way to subscribers around the world.
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