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Video from our trip across Namibia
Posted by stuart, March 13th, 2011
Verbier Summits Into Namibia from Michael Belbas on Vimeo. Check out our new video from our recent trip across Namibia: Read the full story here: http://www.verbier-summits.com/blog/2010/12/07/return-to-namibia/
The race continues.
Posted by stuart, February 23rd, 2011
You might remember the race between Mike and myself, racing a sports car with a paraglider. Well three years on Infiniti cars asked us to repeat the race. This time we went to Austria and whereas three years ago in Verbier the race was more of an XC challenge, this time it was a ...
RETURN TO NAMIBIA.
Posted by stuart, December 7th, 2010
After three years of longing to return to the Namib desert, I finally did last month. We said goodbye to ‘Discovery’, our boat during our flying trip in Mozambique, and bribed our way through a series of African airports with our 60kg of excess paragliding luggage and finally touched down in Windhoek…it felt good to be back. ...
Flying the dunes of Mozambique.
Posted by stuart, November 30th, 2010
We recently joined up with ‘Discovery’ on her expedition around the world and fell upon a flying site of world class status! Check out the video: Verbier Summits in Africa from Michael Belbas on Vimeo. Read the full story here: http://www.verbier-summits.com/blog/2010/11/14/discovering-a-flying-wonder-of-the-world/
Discovering a flying wonder of the world.
Posted by stuart, November 14th, 2010
Last month we joined up again with the Best Odyssey who are now coming up to their final year of the five year expedition around the world. Gavin and Jody set sail four years ago with the objective of finding the most remote places to kite surf and paraglide. Mike and I have joined up with ...
Off to join the Odyssey in Madagascar.
Posted by stuart, September 26th, 2010
Mike taking off from the bows of ‘Discovery’ on a previous trip. We’re heading out to join up with ‘Discovery’ again…this time in Madagascar and Mozambique. There’s going to be a lot of cool flying stuff coming up in the next couple of months so stay tuned for some pretty exciting pictures. After leaving ‘Discovery’ in Mozambique ...
Beginner paragliding course.
Posted by stuart, August 30th, 2010
Learn to paraglide with a registered BHPA paragliding school. We offer begiiner paraglider courses as well as advanced paragliding courses. This video was made by one of our students, Joe Crabtree, during his 5 day EP paragliding course. Find out more here; Learn to paraglide.
The Duel
Posted by stuart, June 30th, 2010
Brother vs Brother, paraglider vs sports car. Check out the infiniti car commercial filmed in Verbier. Stu was flying his paraglider and Mike was racing him across the valley in his Infiniti FX sports car. The making of movie is great too…check it out: Special thanks to our sponsors at Infiniti cars!
Is this a first?
Posted by stuart, April 2nd, 2010
Mike reports back from the Maldives. Has anyone ever flown over these spectacular atolls before? I don’t know but I’m pretty sure that this is a first! Mike has gone out to join the sailing vessel ‘Discovery’ for an incredible 5 week voyage through the most remote part of the Maldives. He was able to send me ...
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