10 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding Atlas has 10 conversations tagged himalayas, 10 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Robert (Robbie) Whittall, Dr Matt Wilkes, Jake Holland and Shane Tighe. The subject runs alongside adventure, paragliding, risk management.
Robbie Whittall, co-founder and test pilot at Ozone, talks less about flying than about what surrounds it: the line between dedication and obsession, why achievement never brought contentmen
A short extract on the environmental factors that matter most when flying big mountains, which come down to oxygen, cold, G force and sun exposure. It covers where hypoxia begins, how to rec
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
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
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
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
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
Eddie Colfox decodes flying at Bir Billing and the routes north through the Himalayas, including the run to Manali, with a warning to be careful of the cloud and of assuming that the pilot a