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Video: How to reach cloudbase on a paraglider

Greg Hamerton, an instructor with a paragliding school in England, posted this great video explaining how to reach cloudbase on a paraglider.

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Sup’Air issue safety warning for the Delight harness

Sup'Air have issued a safety warning for the Delight harness

Highs and Lows: Thermals On – the first day of the UK XC season

Hugh Miller grabs the best-looking day of the month and goes on a mission through the English flatlands

Red Bull X-Alps 2013: New route is longest yet at 1,000+ km

The Red Bull X-Alps 2013 is to be the biggest yet, with organisers announcing that the route is now more than 1,000km long as the crow flies.

The Red Bull X-Alps 2013: Ten years of pain and glory

Nick Warren, communications manager for the Red Bull X-Alps in 2011, relives the decade-long history of the world's toughest adventure race

PWC Porterville 2013

Well done to Andre Rainsford Alberts for his win and many thanks to

the organisers

New all-in-one website for New Zealand

The one-stop-shop for all things paragliding in New Zealand went live on 7 March.

In issue 146: Babu Sunuwar flies Kilimanjaro

Mad, bad or genius flying? Andy Pag tracked Babu Sunuwar down to his home in Pokhara in Nepal to interview him about his tandem flight from the summit of Kilimanjaro. Was he crazy, stupid or was it the spark of genius?

CIVL Votes for new Competition Class from 2015

A new competition class of paraglider is to be introduced from 2015, following a meeting of CIVL over the weekend of 16-17 February.