Purpose

This blog is about the joy and beauty of paragliding. It’s written as a flight log from my personal experience, but I encourage you to join in: Share the peak experiences of your life flying in the most wonderful places in the world, as I share mine. Let’s help each other get higher and expose one of the world’s best kept secrets: the joy and beauty of paragliding.

Paragliding is all about joy and beauty.

Paragliding is amazing. The experience of flying, without power, without the noise of superfluous apparatus, is as close as one can come to the waking experience of flying in a dream. Far from what most people think, paragliding is far more about joy than adrenaline.

Paragliding is beautiful. You do it in a beautiful environment. In nature – in alpine mountain peaks or tropical ocean ridges. You might have to hike a desert mountain with a 50-pound pack, breathing pristine air, discovering wildlife, rare flora or geology. You might see dolphins or whales as you ridge soar over the ocean, draw the attention of herds of elk or bison – or simply the people who look up in wonder from down below.

Paragliding demands that you reconnect with the forces of nature. As you learn the rules of air, climate, rain, fog, inertia and gravity you discover a unique freedom. This freedom has in impact on every other part of your life. It creates a natural acceptance and patience. It discourages overreacting. It demands that you shed your ego and live in the moment with the most powerful forces on earth.

Paragliding locales are dream destinations, the content of postcards. The sport of paragliding will take you to some of the most beautiful parts of the world. It’s an international sport of all languages and races.

In short, the culture of paragliding is about growth, joy and beauty. It is an experience and expression of your mind, body and soul. So why is it that if you search for paragliding on the Internet you rarely find someone expressing those ideas? It’s kind of like asking someone for a motorcycle story. 9 times out of 10 someone will tell you about a horrible accident for each single story about the joy and beauty of the experience. The most common search result is a highly technical account of wings, lessons and what went wrong.

This blog is about the common experience of when it goes right. It’s about the common experience of loving being in the air, the sights, the sounds, the insights: how paragliding enables your soul to grow and makes us all richer in the process.