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 … Continue reading…
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: Paragliding Trip: Discovering a flying wonder of the world
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 … Continue reading…
Off to join the Odyssey in Madagascar. 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 … Continue reading…
Thanks Joe for this awesome little video. You guys were a lot of fun and we had a great week with you. Check out Joe’s video learning to paraglide: Thanks to Joe Crabtree for the video and his wonderful music.
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 … Continue reading…
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 … Continue reading…
We are an English paragliding school located in the heart of the Alps. For anyone looking to complete a paragliding course in English, we are a fully recognised BHPA school and all of our team of paragliding instructors are fluent in English. We run all BHPA and FSVL paragliding courses … Continue reading…
For the best Alpine paragliding holiday of your life don’t miss out on a week with Verbier-Summits. Located in the heart of Europe, our paragliding holidays include beautiful accommodation and we cater for all levels of paragliding pilot. Our paragliding holidays offer everything from courses for complete beginners to fly-guiding … Continue reading…
Is this a first? 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 … Continue reading…