Gavin McClurg may be the only person ever to learn to paraglide while living on a boat—spending a year sailing around the world.

After finishing again just last month at the Red Bull X-Alps 2017, with other athletes like Tom de Dorlodot, this is an exerpt from the book he was writing on his experience as a 2015 rookie in the “Toughest Adventure Race on Earth”. (more…)