Mads Syndergaard is going to the XC Turkey Paragliding Cup this month, and will be sending regular updates back to Cross Country magazine as the event unfolds.
‘XC131: the mountain issue’ with a FREE A2 colour poster that explains how valley winds work. Inside its 84 glossy colour pages is: How to fly the mountains, Infinite Tumbling a tandem paraglider, the hang gliding Euro Champs, the Ozone Delta, ITV Awak, wind gradients, pod harnesses and so much more. Subscribe at www.xcmag.com
Mountains and how to fly them. Your complete guide to flying the mountains, with advice from some of the best in the sport
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.
John Perez won an Advance paraglider in the 2009 Cross Country prize draw. He made this video to record his first flight on his new wing.
Six of the biggest brands in the sport are joining us to create the best prize draw we’ve ever run!
It rained and stormed but the champions rose above it. Luca Donini and Petra Silvova reveal what went right at the European Paragliding Championships. Comes with FREE DVD
Have 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?â€
‘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
Get your paragliding and hang gliding fix on the iPad – Cross Country magazine is on Apple’s must-have item of the year.
A free 100-page travel guide and a packed issue make 129 one of the best Cross Country magazines ever
‘Burgsdorf is not even on the map.’ Empty desert, 6,000 m base, and 300 km out-and-returns, but tinged with tragedy. Vianney Tisseau returned with incredible images from this season’s Namibian Record Encampment
‘It’s endless summer, we can fly every day,’ says Frank Brown. With hundreds of site, thousands of pilots and sunshine year round Brazil has it all – and in spades
‘Back in the game!’ Or is he? Hang gliding superstar Manfred Ruhmer came back to comp flying this year after five years away. Ed Ewing meets the most decorated man in hang gliding
‘It was windy all the time – and turbulent.’ Hugh Miller gets the inside scoop on winner Chrigel Maurer and the incredible Alpine flying that gripped the free-flight world this summer
Since his first flights Indian pilot Adie Kumar had a dream: to fly across the Indian Himalaya…
When the rain starts to fall in the next Red Bull X-Alps, one man will be smiling. Bob Drury meets the Romanian endurance fiend Toma Coconea
Ten tasks over twelve days made the 2009 Paragliding World Championships in Mexico the most demanding, and the fairest, FAI event in the history of the sport
On 14 December 2008 Nevil Hulett lined up his knowledge of the South African sky with his even greater paragliding experience and had his girlfriend tow him out of a dusty track with his 4X4 truck. Seven and a half hours later he landed with the world’s first 500 km paraglider flight beneath his belt, and two world records
Nerves of steel, the reactions of a Jedi and the mind of a scientist: Marcus King visits Paratest on the shores of Lake Geneva to discover if he’s got what it takes to be a professional test pilot
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