Video: Squash Falconer’s Everest paraglide attempt
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
‘One out of two isn’t bad.’ A 14-minute film of trying to paraglide on top of the world
‘One out of two isn’t bad.’ A 14-minute film of trying to paraglide on top of the world
Thomas De Dorlodot has flown 225.02km in Pakistan
Tandem pair fly 20km XC from 8848m summit
Adam Hill and Frontiers Paragliding are running tours in new places this year.
Mike Küng and the Paratrekking team have taken to the Himalayan skies.
Mike Kung plans to fly up the south face of Lhotse in Nepal, and gain the world altitude record for soaring flight.
New trips and new operator at Himalayan paragliding site of Bir
Paragliding with high altitude guru John Silvester gives Thayer Walker a new perspective on life
Paragliding in India has been banned until 20 October 2010, dealing another blow to the sport in the country…
The Himalayan Odyssey paragliding expedition has ended with members of the team having flown 1,100 km of the Indian and Nepalese Himalaya in 48 days.
As the Himalayan Odyssey team celebrate their half-way point at Mahendranagar, the Across Himalaya team are just starting out on their own 2010 mission.
Three paraglider pilots are planning a Himalayan Odyssey, a vol-bivouac adventure, travelling the length of the Himalaya and exploring the legends, myths and life of these remote mountain regions and their inhabitants.
New procedures for paragliding at the Indian site of Billing have been announced. From 15 February paraglider pilots will have to show a licence and proof of insurance…
Paragliding photographer Felix Wölk leaves the chilled-out lakeside retreat of Pokhara behind and gets too high, too fast in the big mountains of Nepal
French mountaineer Antoine Girard is set to paraglide from the summits of Gasherbrum 1 + 2 and Broad peak in the Pakistan Karakoram
Bob Drury will be travelling up the west coast of the USA in mid to late April visiting clubs and schools
The Airwave Himalaya was specially designed for use in professional mountain expeditions
‘From Nowhere to the Middle of Nowhere’, the classic adventure movie by John Silvester and Alun Hughes
Bob Drury continues his search for paragliding nirvana in the Indian Himalayas
Rob Whittall, world champion in both hang gliding and paragliding, wrote this tribute to friendship for Cross Country issue 67 in 2000