Issue 141: New look for Cross Country magazine
Cross Country magazine has been re-designed to make it cleaner, clearer, and better than ever
Cross Country magazine has been re-designed to make it cleaner, clearer, and better than ever
Top Ten Christmas presents for hang glider and paraglider pilots
Classic Routes is the beautiful new paragliding and hang gliding book from the makers of Cross Country magazine
Subscribe to Cross Country magazine and you could win a paraglider
Hello Rio! Nader Couri takes us on a tour of his home city plus Red Bull X-Alps 2011 and the future of the paraglider
The Adventure issue. Paragliding and hang gliding adventures from the Himalaya, Afghanistan, Madagascar, the Altai and Lanzarote. Free poster
Everything you need to know to fly 200km: Bob Drury speaks to the masters of flatland flying to bring you the ultimate guide to making sense of the far horizon
The Acro issue: Pal Takats reveals how to plan your acro learning curve and how you’ll know you’re ready for the big stuff.
Mountains and how to fly them. Your complete guide to flying the mountains, with advice from some of the best in the sport
It rained and stormed but the champions rose above it. Luca Donini and Petra Silvova reveal what went right at the European Paragliding Championships. Comes with FREE DVD
‘Norway is a rock.’ Nordic stars reveal how to go big in the wilds of Finland, Sweden and Norway. PLUS FREE 100-page travel guide
‘Burgsdorf is not even on the map.’ Empty desert, 6,000 m base, and 300 km out-and-returns, but tinged with tragedy. Vianney Tisseau returned with incredible images from this season’s Namibian Record Encampment
‘It’s endless summer, we can fly every day,’ says Frank Brown. With hundreds of site, thousands of pilots and sunshine year round Brazil has it all – and in spades
‘Back in the game!’ Or is he? Hang gliding superstar Manfred Ruhmer came back to comp flying this year after five years away. Ed Ewing meets the most decorated man in hang gliding
‘It was windy all the time – and turbulent.’ Hugh Miller gets the inside scoop on winner Chrigel Maurer and the incredible Alpine flying that gripped the free-flight world this summer
Since his first flights Indian pilot Adie Kumar had a dream: to fly across the Indian Himalaya…
When the rain starts to fall in the next Red Bull X-Alps, one man will be smiling. Bob Drury meets the Romanian endurance fiend Toma Coconea
Ten tasks over twelve days made the 2009 Paragliding World Championships in Mexico the most demanding, and the fairest, FAI event in the history of the sport
On 14 December 2008 Nevil Hulett lined up his knowledge of the South African sky with his even greater paragliding experience and had his girlfriend tow him out of a dusty track with his 4X4 truck. Seven and a half hours later he landed with the world’s first 500 km paraglider flight beneath his belt, and two world records
Nerves of steel, the reactions of a Jedi and the mind of a scientist: Marcus King visits Paratest on the shores of Lake Geneva to discover if he’s got what it takes to be a professional test pilot
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