What’s it like to compete in the Red Bull X-Alps, the greatest adventure paragliding race on the planet? Ed Ewing asks the people who know – the athletes

Felix Wölk stares deep into his soul as he and Michael Gebert fly the canyons and badlands of Ethiopia. All Photos: Felix Wölk

Five world records and a 400 km convergence line are just rewards for French record breaker Gil Souviron as he finds the answers to his calling in the deserts of Africa

A series of choice cuts from Burkhard Martens’ new technique book on everything you need to know about cross country paragliding and hang gliding

Cross Country reports from Stubai 2008, the paragliding world’s kickstart to the season

A series of choice cuts from Burkhard Martens’ new technique book on everything you need to know about cross country flying

An extract from Thermal Flying by Burkhard Martens, the bible for paragliding and hang gliding pilots

Stefan Bocks takes us on one of the most sought after paragliding vol bivouac routes in the world

Jocky Sanderson talks us through the most accessible and effective way of burning off height quickly on a paraglider

French vol bivouac duo, Philippe Nodet and Julien Wirtz, redefine adventure paragliding over ten incredible days in the heart of the Karakoram in Northern Pakistan.

The first time your risers go slack, and your leading edge lurches down towards and tries to slap you in the face…

There’s no room for naked fear tackling the first paraglider circumnavigation of 8,126 m Nanga Parbat – the naked mountain

Bob Drury picks up some tips from some of the best paraglider and hang glider pilots in the world about how they thermal, in the final part of Cross Country magazine’s definitive guide to thermalling

How to Thermal better: Cross Country Magazine’s definitive guide to flying hang gliders and paragliders in thermals by Bob Drury

Paragliding World Champion Louise Crandal’s life takes an unexpected twist as she falls for a bird of prey

Until the eighth day, the 2005 Flytec Championships was a festival of fast racing and fun times, as Davis Straub reports

Skywalk’s technical guru, Manfred Kistler, looks at applying artificial feathers to paragliding design.

In the latest of Dennis Pagen’s ongoing series of psychiatric examinations, Dennis visits Ukraine to interrogate the mighty Oleg Bondarchuk, current hang gliding World Champion and winner of the 2005 Flytec Championships

Bruce Goldsmith relates a recent close encounter with a Cu Nim and looks at how best to avoid the dangers of thunderclouds

Will Gadd embarks on the glide of his life as he paraglides across the awesome Grand Canyon…