Gavin McClurg’s Big Weekend: UK Tour, 6-9 April 2017

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Adventure athlete and paraglider pilot Gavin McClurg will be touring the UK in partnership with Cross Country Magazine over one long weekend in April. He will be giving two talks and screening ‘North of Known’, the new paragliding adventure film documenting his and Dave Turner’s epic trip across the Alaska Range by foot and paraglider. […] …read more

Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

CHRIST THE REDEEMER by Yassen Savov

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To redeem:

To save (a person or soul) from a state of sinfulness and its consequences
To restore the honor, worth, or reputation of
To atone for (an error or mistake)
To compensate for the faults or bad aspects of (something)

It was in 1922 that a nameless paragliding pilot from Rio, after an epic series of bad decisions and premature landings (a.k.a. “bomb-outs”) in a local competition, felt a deep, even religious need to redeem himself. So he climbed the hill of Corcovado, looked down on the sprawling splendor of city, ocean, jungle, and rock beneath him, grandiosely spread his arms and, slightly raising his sweaty chin, exclaimed, “Help me, Jesus, redeem myself!” Needless to say, he was fucking tired of losing (not to mention the climb). So, his arms still spread out, he closed his eyes and made himself and God a promise. Then he walked back down to the city and gathered all the other Rio pilots suffering from chronic bomb-out syndrome and occupying the bottom side of the comp result sheets. That night, spending their last money on more rounds of cachaça than history can count, they drew the first architectural drawing …read more

Source:: Ozone Paragliders

Video Q&A: Paragliding through Iran with Nick Greece

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US team pilot Nick Greece has released a brilliant video from a paragliding and paramotoring trip to Iran Nick, it’s a beautiful video. When did you go to Iran? October of 2015. What was it like? It was fantastic flying with big air, incredible culture, inspiring hospitality, glorious food, immense sites of antiquity over 2,000 […] …read more

Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine

50 Years of Hang Gliding with Bill Moyes

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Bill Moyes is a legend in hang gliding. Vicki Cain writes: “I’m super proud to release this tribute video to my dad Bill Moyes, which has been put together by the awesome Tony Ritter with collaboration from a number of amazing people including my sister Debra Gray, Lukas Bader, nephew Ben Harris (Bill’s #1 Grandson) […] …read more

Source:: Cross Country – International Free Flying Magazine