In recent years Bir Billing has become incredibly popular thanks to the promise of big mountain flying from October to December. But it can also be strong and committing – and busy. It’s caught out ...

Red Bull X-Alps today announces the lineup for the world’s toughest adventure race, which returns in June 2027.

Ozone have released their first parakite. The Vapor is designed for pilots seeking outstanding stability, agility and fun, while delivering exceptional performance for the category. Aspect Ratio and ...

Neo have identified localised wear on certain webbing straps on a limited number of Bikini tandem harnesses that have been subjected to particularly intensive use, typically exceeding 800 launches.

Austria’s “sun city” of Lienz hosted the 39th edition of the Dolomitenmann at the weekend – the fast and furious mountain relay race that sees teams run, fly, mountain bike and kayak in this beautiful ...

Jianhua Li has died at the Paragliding World Cup in Sopot, Bulgaria. The pilot, who was part of a new generation of up-and-coming pilots in China, lost his life during the second task of the event. In ...

Tributes have continued to be paid to the legendary free flight pilot, Toni Bender, who died suddenly at the age of 68 while camping in the Karwendel mountains near Innsbruck last week. “With Toni, we ...

SRS pilot Luke Nicol goes wingtip-to-wingtip with Paragliding World Champion Baptiste Lambert at the Sports-Class Racing Series in Le Grand Bornand. “I was watching them turn back underneath me,” ...

Half in Yongin in Korea near the Gin Gliders factory and half in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains at the foot of Mont Blanc. How and when did you get into flying? 1990! It was a crazy period for paragliding.

Some days, flying feels almost effortless. The mind is calm, the decisions flow smoothly and the lift appears almost naturally. Then there are the days when our thoughts go round and round in circles, ...

Climbing out from launch I watched the ground drop below me. That definitely never gets old. I circled up to a hang glider pilot at base – if there was a base, it was a blue day, let’s call it the top ...

Total eclipses of the sun do not come along often. The last one to pass over mainland Europe was on 11 August 1999. This year “totality” – when the entire sun is covered by the moon – occurred in a ...