4 conversations, every one with a full transcript.
Paragliding Atlas has 4 conversations tagged world record, 4 of them with a complete transcript you can read and search on the page. Guests include Erlend Ukvitne, Godfrey Wenness, Honorin Hamard and Antoine Girard. The subject runs alongside paragliding, cross country, weather.
Erlend Ukvitne talks through the route from wanting a place at the X-Alps to actually earning one, and the mindset behind his attempt at a world record. Much of it is practical advice for pi
Godfrey Wenness talks through flying at Manilla in New South Wales, where violent dust devil style climbs build on super adiabatic days but the air is still less punishing than big alpine co
Honorin Hamard, a French competition pilot with close to 8,000 hours by his early thirties and several world records behind him, explains how he approaches a race and why he keeps flying to
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