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Squash Falconer on Mount Everest

Video: Squash Falconer’s Everest paraglide attempt

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

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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

Babu Sunuwar flies off Everest

Tandem pair fly 20km XC from 8848m summit

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Mike Kung. Photo: u-Turn.de

Mike Kung in altitude record attempt in Himalaya

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

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Eric Reed, left, and Brad Sander in custody on 20 March 2011. Photo: Himalayan Odyssey

Himalayan Odyssey pair bailed

Arrested US paraglider pilots to be released on bail but no court date set

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The team waiting to launch on the HImalayan Odyssey

Himalayan Odyssey arrest update

Brad Sander and Eric Reed, the two adventure paraglider pilots arrested in India, will face a local court on Saturday 19 March.

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Brad Sander, high above the Himalaya.

Himalayan Odyssey pilots arrested

US paraglider pilots Brad Sander and Eric Reed have been arrested in Sikkim, India, after flying in from Nepal without permits.

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Parahawking in Nepal under threat

Scott Mason is standing firm in the face of a sustained local media campaign to shut down his parahawking operation in Nepal.

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Paraglider pilot missing in Pokhara after tragic accident

A German acro paraglider pilot is missing in Nepal after a stunt to celebrate his 200th flight in Pokhara went tragically wrong.

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Horacio Llorens tumbles to new acro record

Spanish acro paraglider pilot Horacio Llorens has broken the world record for Infinite Tumbles. He executed 281 successive revolutions on Saturday 5 December in Nepal after D-bagging from a helicopter at 5,000 m…

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Blackout

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

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Kevin

Parahawking in Nepal: Under the wings of Kevin

Scott Mason and Kevin, the Egyptian vulture he trained, have had a busy season at the Maya Devi bird refuge on the banks of lake Pokhara, Nepal

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Nowhere to the Middle of Nowhere

Nowhere to the Middle of Nowhere re-released

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

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Flying with eagles: Louise Crandal goes from 9 to 5 to feeling alive!

Paragliding World Champion Louise Crandal’s life takes an unexpected twist as she falls for a bird of prey

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Travel in Nepal: Expedition Korchon

The Annapurna range in Nepal had taunted Scottish instructor Zabdi Keen just once too often, capping her climbs towards it from the lower slopes with heavy inversions. Trekking towards a higher launch seemed the only option – one that needed proper preparation, not an overnight decision

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Paragliding the Himalayas: Lust For Life

‘‘I am an eternal optimist with a lust for life, not some psycho with an urge to die.’ Paraglider pilot Bob Drury tells the story behind his recent BBC filming trip in Nepal

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John Silvester and Alun Hughes: From Nowhere to the Middle of Nowhere

In April 1999, paraglider pilot John Silvester arrived in western Nepal with cameraman Al Hughes to attempt the first-ever paragliding crossing of western Nepal…

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