PWC 2017: Honorin Hamard and Yael Margelisch win in Ecuador

Honorin Hamard and Yael Margelisch won the Ecuador round of the 2017 PWC tour, which finished on Saturday 4th November after three tasks. The three tasks were 60.8km, 67.5km and 62.6km distances, with plenty of technical flying required under cloudy and humid conditions with low cloudbases at Guayaquil. All that remains now for the 2017 […]

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British RAF’s three tandems meet for the first time

Chris Williams from the RAF’s Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association reports… Three Royal Air Force (RAF) tandem paragliders flew together for the first time ever at Westbury, a paragliding site in the south of England, at the end of October 2017. Chris Williams, a former RAF pilot, flew a brand-new Advance Bi Beta 6 that […]

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Steve Nash: Man jailed for murder of vol-biv pilot

A man has been jailed for the murder of Steve Nash, the British paraglider pilot who was killed while on a vol-bivouac expedition in Mongolia in August 2016. The BBC has reported that Gantulga Batsukh was found guilty of murder and given 16 years in jail on Friday. In a statement issued by the Nash […]

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Ozone Free Flight Night: Get Published!

Cross Country editor Ed Ewing ran a 20-minute ‘Get Published!’ session at the Ozone Free Flight Night afternoon sessions at the Kendal Mountain Festival on Thursday 16 November 2017. His advice? “Get the idea and the rest will follow!” Filmed and edited by Andre Ferreira

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Video report: Nepal Paragliding Open 2017

The Nepal Paragliding Open 2017 took place 1-5 November in Sirkot, Nepal a three- hour drive southwest of Pokhara. This was the first Nepalese-organised competition to take place, and was billed as the national team selection event. The competition was organised by Babu Sunwar, who famously flew a paraglider from the summit of Everest in 2011, […] …read more

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