Bruce Goldsmith brings us up to date on paraglider behaviour during full frontals

Jerome Maupoint and OMG break out the hiking boots, cut their food and paragliding kit to a minimum and head for Aragon in Northern Spain to spend some time communing with the local raptors

A Jordanian desert paragliding adventure. Words and photos by Felix Wölk

Travelling light, Manu Bonte chases his childhood dreams in the ancient and sacred lands of the Inca in Peru

Aussie competitor and instructor Peter Bowyer reveals his two most frightening moments in paragliding- and the lessons they taught him…

‘Today is a good day to be alive.’ Peter Wild shakes out his paraglider and flies the north face of the Eiger

Rob Whittall, world champion in both hang gliding and paragliding, wrote this tribute to friendship for Cross Country issue 67 in 2000

‘‘I am an eternal optimist with a lust for life, not some psycho with an urge to die.’ Paraglider pilot Bob Drury tells the story behind his recent BBC filming trip in Nepal

Imagine standing in a warehouse somewhere. Your mobile phone rings. You struggle to answer it… and there they are, your friends phoning from a Himalayan summit…

Hang gliding: Hang glider designer Felix Ruehle, previously of Pegasus and Flight Design, revealed his new ATOS design at the Thermik show in December…

Godfrey Wenness describes his momentous 335 km paragliding world record from Manilla, Australia

Davor Jardas describes what it was like to get sucked to 7,000 m on his paraglider in a paragliding competition in Croatia in the late 1990s

Paragliding and hang gliding in Australia – Carol Binder rounds up the season for 1999…

My paragliding harness creaks like an old saddle under the force of the thermal I’m riding. The ferocity of the thermals as they blast us upward through the rarefied air above 20,000ft is phenomenal.