Exclusive interview with Chrigel Maurer and Thomas Theurillat immediately after they won the Red Bull X-Alps 2011

Chrigel Maurer toplands to win the X-Alps for a second time

Athletes Go! Go! Go! on final 48 hour push as Chrigel closes on goal

Hello world! That’s the message from Chrigel Maurer

It’s a slog through rain down south while the chasing pack converge on Mont Blanc

Chrigel looks to Monaco as Toma fends off the wolves

Chrigel makes tracks as wind makes for extreme flying

Chrigel clipped ‘buffer zone’ by one metre, he says

Chrigel Maurer flies like a bird – but gets 24hr time penalty for airspace

Chrigel pulls ahead into clearer weather as Toma snaps at his heels

2011 Red Bull X-Alps blasts off on Sunday 17 July for 30 of the fittest para-athletes in the world

2009 Red Bull X-Alps winning team Chrigel Maurer and Thomas Theurillat will be giving a slide show and talk on “the Red Bull X-Alps 2009 – as it really was” at the Salzburg Mountain film festival tomorrow night, 7 December.

Applications for the 2011 Red Bull X-Alps paragliding adventure race, have opened and athletes have until 30 September 2010 to apply.

Winner of the 2009 Red Bull X-Alps, Chrigel Maurer, has also won the first Biotech Bordairline competition of the year, finishing ahead of Austrians Robert Heim and Martin Steinbichler.

Advance would like to congratulate their team pilots, who managed a clean sweep at the Grindelwald

Chrigel Maurer has set a new world record for Infinite Tumble