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

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

Team Red Bull Austria wins Red Bull Elements

Paragliding to star in French multi-sport adventure race

Luc Armant and Dav Dagault fly record distance in French Alps

Yoan Castagnoli and Laure Gicquel are France’s speed riding champions of 2011

Registration for the Ozone Chabre Open begins at 20:00 GMT tonight.

The fourth Samoëns Speed Riding Cup will take place on 18 and 19 March 2011 in France’s Haute Savoie region

The Ozone Chabre Open, the friendly paragliding competition based in the little town of Laragne Monteglin in the French Haute-Alpes, takes place from 4 – 10 June this year. Registration starts 30 January.

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

French pilot Stephane Drouin has (provisionally) broken the paraglider world record for speed over a triangular course of 200 km with a flight from Aime in the Haute Tarentaise on 24 May.

It is with sadness that Parateam club of St Hilaire du Touvet announced earlier this month that the 2009 event was the last of Dune du Pyla’s Wagas Festivals.

The Transdromoise, paragliding hike-and-fly race across the Drome department of France, is set for 18 – 23 April 2010.

The 3rd Coupe Icare Blanche held in St Hilaire at the end of January was a great success. Eric Viola demonstrated the best combination of speed riding and fancy dress to win first prize.

This year the BHPA will be holding the two legs of the British Open in the Soca valley, Slovenia and St Andre, France in June and September respectively.

Dates have been set for the Ozone Chabre Open 2010 friendly paragliding competition in Laragne, France: 5 – 11 June 2010.

British female mountaineer and paraglider pilot, Squash Falconer, recently achievement a long-time ambition to climb and fly from the top of Mt Blanc, Europe’s highest peak. Travelling from the UK to Chamonix by motorbike with the wing on her back, Squash realised her dream in September, with British ex-pat Annecy mountain guide Irwyn Jehu of [...]

British pilot Squash Falconer achieved a lifetime’s ambition in September when she became the first British woman to paraglide from the summit of Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest peak at 4,810 m. An experienced mountaineer with ascents of Aconcagua and 8,000 m Cho Oyu under her belt, she enlisted the help of Annecy-based guide Irwyn Jehu [...]

András Kollman’s brilliant film about two young acro pilots from Budapest, Hungary, won the top award at the 2009 Coupe Icare film festival

Adrian Thomas won the British Paragliding Championship after a final week of great competition flying in the southern French Alps in August…