13 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding Atlas has 13 conversations tagged adventure, 13 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Chris Garcia, Jake Holland, Shane Tighe and Sandrine Roy. The subject runs alongside paragliding, himalayas, risk management.
Chris Garcia started Convergence Paragliding in 2023 out of a long held wish to run a tour in Cuba, where his father is from and where he had already built kayaking and cycling trips years e
Jake Holland describes what filming flying actually involves, which he likens to herding pigeons: toplanding on a snowy peak and getting a drone airborne before your friends have climbed out
Shane Tighe went from engineering in the Australian flatlands to a place on the X-Alps start line, a 1,200 kilometre race across the Alps on legs and wings alone. He talks about the fifteen
Sandrine Roy is circumnavigating the globe without using a plane or a car, stitching the journey together by paraglider, bicycle and sailing boat. The conversation treats vol biv as a way of
Eddie Colfox was one of the early explorers of vol biv flying, and this is three decades of stories from expeditions alongside John Silvester. The films that came out of those trips, among t
Kinga Masztalerz points out that everyone calls paragliding a mental game, yet very few pilots train the mind the way they train ground handling or thermalling. She makes the case for being
Andreas Lattner of hochzwei.media describes leaving a salaried job to build a living out of flying and filming, in one of the most expensive economies in the world. The conversation is about
Benjamin Jordan, a pilot and adventure filmmaker, talks about how he visualises a project and then actually gets it made, and what happens when things go against him partway through. This is
Subir Sidhu rose through the sport quickly, and the conversation is about how to do that without outrunning your own margin, pushing where he wanted to and holding back where he had to. He d
Philipp Zellner has spent more than a decade flying at altitude in the Himalayas, and this first Risk vs Reward episode is about how he weighs that against the consequences. He tells the sto
Nikolay Yotov of Skynomad takes the show to Africa for the first time, on flying in Kenya ahead of the pre World Cup held there. It covers what the sites are actually like and what it means
Antoine Girard was told that flying at 8,000 metres was not possible, so in 2016 he went and did it, and now talks about 9,000 as a way of showing there is no ceiling at all. He describes re
Jigish Gohil gives the local view of Bir Billing, starting with the safety briefing he thinks every visiting pilot should read before they arrive, and the landing out stories that explain wh