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A still from Stephane Boulanger's 12-minute film

Mont Blanc toplandings: Video round-up

On Sunday 19 August over 60 pilots toplanded Mont Blanc by paraglider, and lots more soared the summit and above. We’ve rounded up the videos…

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Low cloud on launch at Annecy

PWCA 2012: Alfredo Studer wins after one task

Swiss pilot Alfredo Studer (Ozone) won the French round of the Paragliding World Cup 2012 in Talloires – his second ever PWC competition

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Classic Routes from XCmag

Classic Routes: The World’s Best XC Routes

Classic Routes is the beautiful new paragliding and hang gliding book from the makers of Cross Country magazine

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St Gervais Vol Libre 4807 Flying Light week

4807 Flying Light: hike-and-fly week in St Gervais

The St Gervais Mont Blanc paragliding club’s 4807 Flying Light hike-and-fly week runs from 4 – 9 October 2011.

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Antoine Girard completes the tour five minutes before the cutoff time, and is the winner of the first ever Airtour

St Hil’Airtour 2011: the last day

The last day meant fantastic flights for some, and all day on foot for others. The winner, Antoine Giraud, completed the entire tour and flew into goal with five minutes to spare.

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Charlie flying from the Col de Aparitatz above Ugine

St Hil’Airtour 2011: Groundtouring and tree landing

After yesterday’s disappointing and frustrating day, I’d hoped today would be extra good. The morning was sunny and cloudless, except for the pileus hat on Mont Blanc

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Charlie climbing on the Aravis

St Hil’Airtour 2011: Going round in circles

“My day has gone from bad to worse. Wish I’d done what I’d wanted to. Now set myself back hours and hours of walking ☹ not fun any more”

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Feet holding up well

St Hil’Airtour 2011: Half way point

Day three is over, so we are halfway through the Airtour, timewise if not distance-wise. The car is doubling up as a fairly ineffective drying room after last night’s downpour soaked everything, and is starting to smell like a cheese factory

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Charlie eating lunch and changing shoes before the next section of the hike

St Hil’Airtour 2011: A day of walking

We woke to a grey sky with the odd shower coming through but still the hope it would be flyable from the top of Colombier…

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Summiting the Col de Marocaz

St Hil’Airtour 2011: More walking than flying

Charlie King flies and walks 36km on her first day of the 289km adventure race.

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Group photo of the competitors and their supporters

St Hil’Airtour 2011: Practise day

Charlie King reports from the start of the 289km adventure race

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St Hil’Airtour 2011: Heading north

The car’s packed and we’re off up to St Hilaire for the start of the Airtour.

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Austrian Arenas have revamped their website for 2011

Austrian Arena revamp website

Alpine paragliding guiding company Austrian Arena have a new, media-rich website.

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Paragliding Stubai Cup and Testival 2011 poster

Stubai Cup and Testival 2011

The 20th Stubai Cup and Testival kicks off the 2011 Alpine paragliding season from 18 – 20 March.

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Cross Country training in the French Alps for Ozone Delta pilots

The Alpine Flying Centre near Chamonix in the French Alps will be running cross country weeks exclusively for Ozone Delta pilots, next summer.

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Cross Country paragliding training camps and tours with Oliver Rössel

Oliver Rössel, the current German serial class paragliding champion and one of the most successful competition pilots in the world, is running cross country training camps in the Alps next season.

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Tom Payne tops UK paragliding XC league with 169 km triangle

British paraglider pilot Tom Payne stormed to the top of the British international XC league with an FAI triangle flight of 169.55 km, flown around the Chamonix – Annecy area on Wednesday 28 April 2010.

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Paraglider hike and fly events in the French Alps for autumn 2010

French paragliding school Esprit Parapente are organising two hike-and-fly events in the French Alps for autumn 2010.

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Registration open for the Ozone Chabre Open 2010 paragliding competition

Registration for the fifth Ozone Chabre Open began on 17 January 2010 on their website, www.flylaragne.com

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Red Bull X-Alps 2009 DVDs for immediate dispatch

The Red Bull X-Alps 2009 was the most incredible yet. Paragliding and hiking 800 km across the Alps. The DVD is out now

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