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PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Posted by stuart, November 12th, 2010

How has no-one ever discovered this world class flying site? Check out our latest blog entry to find out more. We’ve just returned from joing up with the Odyssey expedition and found this incrdible flying site in Mozambique!

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.  

Learning to paraglide video.

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.

What a week!

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 ...

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 ...

Are you folding well?

Posted by stuart, March 5th, 2010

Do you always fold up your glider in exactly the same way? Something to do with how we fold our wings was brought to my attention recently after testing a relatively new zulu for  prosity. Ninety nine percent of the wing was in excellent condition, yet sadly one small part of the leading edge failed the test ...

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 ...

Pierre Avoi

Posted by stuart, December 5th, 2009

Two years ago we acquired a beautiful lodge which has been great, but we have also started to feel that we have grown too quickly and that a certain amount of our personal touch has been lost due to the size of the groups that we can now cater for. Because of this we have ...

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