The Entire World is a Family
- Maha Upanishad
Gavin McClurg may be the only person ever to learn to paraglide while living on a boatâspending 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 âToughest Adventure Race on Earthâ. (more…)
The toughest adventure race on the planet is set to be even tougherâstrong winds already forcing the cancellation of flying for the start of the Leatherman Prologue.
Sofia Pineiro and professional paragliding pilot, Thomas de Dorlodot, are about to leave their home (but not their friends), to sail around the world on their latest, and arguably biggest, SEARCH Project yet.
They climbed the equivalent of Everest four times, battled headwinds and a heat wave and hiked and flew 2,000km to cross the Alps.
The seventh edition of the âworldâs toughest adventure race,â the Red Bull X-Alps 2015 begins on 5th July.
Six countries, 1038 km, and a one-day Prologue in Austria.