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A land lost in time

Posted by Stuart, February 18th, 2010

    I have just returned from the Andaman Islands where I was asked to skipper ‘Discovery’, the yacht that we sailed around Tonga on last year. The Andaman Islands belong to India and are located on the Eastern part of the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean. These islands are without a doubt the least ...

BHPA school

Posted by Stuart, December 4th, 2009

Verbier Summits is now an official BHPA school and Stu Belbas is now a BHPA Senior Instructor. Up until now we have been able to complete the BHPA syllabus, but now students can not only learn the BHPA way with us, but actually go home fully qualified. Furthermore, due to our fantastic training site, we ...

Photo Competition

Posted by Stuart, October 11th, 2009

We are offering you the chance to win a Free week with Verbier Summits in 2011! Upload a photo on this blog that sums up your perfect Alpine flying experience before September 30th 2010. The winning picture will win a free holiday with us here in Verbier in 2011. Terms and conditions: Only two photos per applicant. Photos must be ...

Heli Paragliding

Posted by Stuart, August 7th, 2009

Some beautiful pictures from the summit of the Petit Combin. On a good day we can fly up to the summit of the Petit Combin and cruise down the glacier, looking down over the sea of ice into the glaciers below. But there’s nothing quite like getting a helicopter ride up there at sunset and ...

200 gliders to spell ‘VERBIER’

Posted by Stuart, July 5th, 2009

To welcome the arrival of the 15th stage of the Tour De France in Verbier last month, our famous local flying guru from the 1987 movie ‘Super Max’ spelled out ‘VERBIER’ using over 200 old gliders. The gliders were donated by ourselves and many other schools across the country. It took three days to spell out ...

REEVE WAUD

Posted by Stuart, June 5th, 2009

A new addition to our team this year is Reeve Waud. We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Reeve to our team. Reeve has been flying tandem with us ever since he was a tiny kid and we have been teaching him to fly through his advanced courses overthe past few years. he recently completed his ...

Carlsberg High Five

Posted by Stuart, March 1st, 2009

Another great High Five event from our sponsors, Carlsberg. The race was probably the biggest yet and as usual we were there to animate it from above. Such a great day, with skiers jumping so high and gliders flying so low….just remind me who has the right of way in a head on situation between ...

NEW YEAR…WITH A BANG!

Posted by Stuart, January 1st, 2009

THE ONLY WAY TO SEE FIREWORKS IS FROM ABOVE! Why does everyone watch fireworks from the ground? They look so much better when they’re racing towards you as you stare into their bright eyes just before they explode beneath your feet! Yes once again we saw in the New Year the only way we like to ...

FLYING AMONGST GIANTS

Posted by Stuart, October 22nd, 2008

We flew over the mythical site of Meteora in Northern Greece. A strange place where monks reach the precarious monasteries by being hoisted up in a net…we chose to get up there on a paraglider. I have always wanted to visit the legendary and mythical site of Meteora. So when I decided to go, of course ...

Infiniti Sponsorship

Posted by Stuart, June 11th, 2008

We would like to welcome our new sponsor to the family! Infiniti cars have teamed up with Verbier Summits to produce a commercial to see who can win a race across the Verbier valley….Mike in one of their super cars or Stu on his GIN Rebel! Mike and I were hired by Infiniti to produce a ...

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