Thermalling well is all about mental mapping, staying alert to new information and exploration within the thermal. And lots of flying is the only way to collect the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle, writes Bob Drury

Free download to the best paragliding and hang gliding sites in the world.

Cross Country magazine’s Global Travel Guide for hang gliding and paragliding is now available online as a free pdf download – perfect for the iPad, your laptop or printing off.
Published in April 2010 the print edition of the guide was given away [...]

David Humphrey samples Turkey’s new big distance arena ahead of the XC Turkey event in September 2010

Forget blue skies and 4,000 m cloudbases, the Red Bull X-Alps is about bleeding feet, blisters, buckled knees and rain. Are you tough enough? Ed Ewing spoke to some of the athletes to find out what it takes to keep running…

The latest issue of Cross Country is out now in both paper and digital formats. Read on for editor Ed Ewing’s taster of what’s brewing inside.

Six of the biggest brands in the sport are joining us to create the best prize draw we’ve ever run!

Gradient’s Madeiran adventures: a movie by Felix Woelk

Gradient have been filming their latest paragliders, and the videos presented here are of their Avax XC3 serial class racer and the intermediate Golden3.

Top paragliding film, Gravity Never Sleeps, has been shortlisted for an award at FIFAD (the International Alpine Film Festival) in Les Diablerets from 7 – 14 August 2010.

There have been several fatalities lately caused by paraglider pilots taking off with their harness leg straps open, or by misjudging their altitude over water. Following investigation into these cases, the DHV have issued the following safety advice for paraglider pilots.