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Video: Squash Falconer’s Everest paraglide attempt

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Squash Falconer on Mount Everest

‘One out of two isn’t bad.’ A 14-minute film of trying to paraglide on top of the world

New record flight set in Karakoram

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Thomas de Dorlodot paragliding in the Pakistan Karakoram Mountains

Thomas De Dorlodot has flown 225.02km in Pakistan

Babu Sunuwar flies off Everest

Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Babu Sunuwar on the summit of Everest at 8.50am 21 May 2011, shortly before his flight from the summit. Photo: Babu Sunuwar/Lakpa Tshering Sherpa

Tandem pair fly 20km XC from 8848m summit

New destinations for Frontiers Paragliding

Friday, April 8th, 2011
The colourful retireve vehicle in Colombia

Adam Hill and Frontiers Paragliding are running tours in new places this year.

Everest Paratrekking news updates

Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Everest Paratrekking team members: oxygen masks on

Mike Küng and the Paratrekking team have taken to the Himalayan skies.

Mike Kung in altitude record attempt in Himalaya

Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Mike Kung. Photo: u-Turn.de

Mike Kung plans to fly up the south face of Lhotse in Nepal, and gain the world altitude record for soaring flight.

Fly-Guiding in the Himalaya

Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Paragliding in Billing with Himalayan Sky Safaris. Photo: HSS

New trips and new operator at Himalayan paragliding site of Bir

Himalayan paragliding with John Silvester

Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Paragliding in the Himalaya with John Silvester

Paragliding with high altitude guru John Silvester gives Thayer Walker a new perspective on life

Paragliding banned in Bir, India – again

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
XC

Paragliding in India has been banned until 20 October 2010, dealing another blow to the sport in the country…

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Himalayan Odyssey paraglide across Himalaya

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
XC

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.

Across Himalaya expedition

Friday, March 26th, 2010
XC

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.

UP Himalayan Odyssey paragliding expedition 2010

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
XC

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 paragliding rules for Billing

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
XC

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…

Blackout

Monday, December 7th, 2009

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

Paragliding Karakoram’s Gasherbrum I+II and Broad Peak

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Antoine Girard

French mountaineer Antoine Girard is set to paraglide from the summits of Gasherbrum 1 + 2 and Broad peak in the Pakistan Karakoram

Bob Drury tours USA with Himalayan paragliding show

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Bob Drury flying deep in the Himalayan mountains

Bob Drury will be travelling up the west coast of the USA in mid to late April visiting clubs and schools

Airwave Himalaya: New expedition glider

Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Airwave's new lightweight paraglider, the Himalaya

The Airwave Himalaya was specially designed for use in professional mountain expeditions

Nowhere to the Middle of Nowhere re-released

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Nowhere to the Middle of Nowhere

‘From Nowhere to the Middle of Nowhere’, the classic adventure movie by John Silvester and Alun Hughes

Bob Drury in the Himalaya: High and Mighty

Monday, May 17th, 2004
XC

Bob Drury continues his search for paragliding nirvana in the Indian Himalayas

Rob Whittall: A tribute to friendship

Monday, April 3rd, 2000

Rob Whittall, world champion in both hang gliding and paragliding, wrote this tribute to friendship for Cross Country issue 67 in 2000