Cross Country

Cross Country is the world’s leading voice for hang gliding, paragliding and paramotoring pilots. Ten times a year, our magazine content reflects our obsession with flying, and we express it by packing each issue with the most imaginative, inspirational photography and writing we can lay our hands on.

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NEED TO KNOW • News and insight from around the free-flying world

WHAT’S ON

‘600KM IS POSSIBLE, MAYBE MORE IN S.A.’

FORBES FLATLANDS

COLOMBIAN KILOMETRES

MANILLA XC CAMP 2023

EIGERTOUR ROCKS IN THE SNOW

NAKED PILOT LAETITIA ROUX

HIKE & FLY WHAT’S ON

HIKE-AND-FLY THROUGH 2023

RUSSELL OGDEN AWARDED MBE

BACK IN THE DAY

FLYING IQ • Helping you fly better with expert advice and know-how

FEAR AND FLYING • Greg Hamerton has been flying and teaching for 30 years. He is an instructor, reviewer and filmmaker. This year he competed in the X-Pyr again. He runs the Online Flight Academy for progressing pilots at flywithgreg.com

SNOW FUN IS THE BEST FUN • Want to add some winter spice to your groundhandling? Kari Eisenhut explains how

USING OPPOSITE WEIGHTSHIFT • Bruce Goldsmith is a paraglider designer and pilot. He learnt to fly hang gliders in 1979, paragliders in 1989 and won the FAI Paragliding World Championships in 2007 flying a glider he designed

LOCKED ON TO RADIO GA-GA • Allen Weynberg is a school guidance counsellor currently in Brisbane, Australia. At weekends he spends most of his time trying to keep up with the talented pilots of Canungra in southeast Queensland

CLOUDS AND CLIMATE CHANGE • Dr Paulo Ceppi is a lecturer in climate science at the Grantham Institute, Imperial College, London. His main areas of study are how the jet stream and weather systems change as the planet warms and what processes determine climate sensitivity

SATELLITE EYE • Looking down at the Earth below from the sky above

THE PILOT GUIDE TO DATING • Dr. Hana Setterquist has more than 16,000hrs of on-the-ground (and recently in-the-air) experience dating a pilot. Her qualifications include romantic involvement with her partner prior to the attainment of his solo licence, first-hand observations and formal study of his behavioural changes attributable to the sport. She lives in Salt Lake City with her partner, Mitchell, who splits his affections between his Flow Freedom 2 and her.

PORTRAIT OF THE SUPER FINAL • The Paragliding World Cup Super Final in Valle de Bravo saw the highest calibre competition ever. Ruth Jessop reflects on the “marathon in Mexico” while photographer Nicole Holmes caught the pilot portraits at launch and landing

Where the Waters Meet • Jeff Hamann is no stranger to adventure flying – but this was one of his biggest challenges yet. He organised a team of eight pilots plus support crew to fly in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, 1,000km along the remote Rio Negro river

Raphael Laghi: Amazon Guide

How Ouka met Shams • He’s the “fluffy flying dog”, Ouka the beautiful Samoyed whose aerial adventures have gone viral. Tarquin Cooper caught up with Ouka’s owner, the adventure filmmaker Shams to discover that their partnership is more than just a shaggy-dog story

HOW TO FLY WITH YOUR FOUR-LEGGED BEST FRIEND, BY SHAMS

ABOUT SHAMS

KITLIST • All the latest reviews, gear and technology for free flying

New Products

IN BRIEF

BGD EPIC 2 • The Epic 2 (EN B) has been refined to appeal to ambitious and hungry intermediate pilots. Marcus King hops on board

GOING LIGHTWEIGHT: THE ECHO 2 (EN B)

LITTLE CLOUD GRASSHOPPER MK2 • Stand out from the crowd with this well-balanced pod from Little Cloud.

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