Archive for the ‘Flying’ Category
Posted by stuart, November 18th, 2011
Mike recently took a client to climb Mt Blanc and fly off the summit down the Mer de Glace! Parapente avec Verbier Summits depuis le mt Blanc. Mike over the summit! It was a 2 day climb with a sleder that lasted over an hour over one of Europe’s most stunning glaciers. Enjoy some of ...
Posted by stuart, September 28th, 2011
Verbier Summits is an official BHPA school located in the heart of the Swiss Alps. Students can come to the Swiss Alps and benefit from our perfect conditions and sites to learn quickly and safely how to paraglide. In just 2 weeks total beginners can go home fully qualified. You can find out more about ...
Posted by stuart, September 25th, 2011
Learn to paraglide abroad. Verbier Summits is a BHPA registered paragliding school, so you can come and learn to paraglide in the spectacular Swiss Alps and not have to worry about any complicated conversion courses when you go back to the UK. We run all BHPA courses and will organise all of your certifications before you ...
Posted by stuart, September 11th, 2011
Learn to paraglide Watch a video of our students learning to paraglide in Verbier: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/938565/Verbier_Summits_Paragliding_640px.mov (Sorry this takes a few minutes to load). Verbier is quite literally the most ideal flying site that I have ever seen to learn to paraglide. We have two perfect training hills, a ridge that reliably works for ridge soaring and ...
Posted by stuart, August 17th, 2010
Thanks Joe for this awsome little video. You guys were a lot of fun and we had a great week with you despite some bad weather. Check out Joe’s video learning to paraglide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BDSqeQNpaQ Thanks to Joe Crabtree for the video and his wonderful music.
Posted by stuart, July 1st, 2010
I always say that good times are made by the people that you’re with…the place and the weather is just a bonus. Well if that’s true, last week was definitely an amazing week…with lots of bonuses! It was a week of great company, huge achievements for first time flyers, impressive thermalling for the low air time guys and some wonderful xc tasks achieved ...
Posted by stuart, September 10th, 2009
Pilots who are looking to start experiencing XC flights can experience breath-taking Xc flights without ever leaving the safety and comfort of our valley. A typical flight like this will take a fairly low airtime pilot from green pastures to snow fields and over Alpine lakes and quite often up onto the stunning glacier….and always ...
Posted by stuart, September 9th, 2009
Verbier was put on the World Flying Map in the early nineties when it was recognised by the PWC as an incredible Alpine XC site. But as well as being a good starting point for flying XC, Verbier is also a place that suitable for every kind of pilot. As well as great XC flights ...
