What did you since 17th July`?

Some guys travel only by flying with their paraglider and by foot 864 km throu the Alps from Salzburg to Monaco http://www.redbullxalps.com/. Chrigel Maurer did this in 11 days, flying 1.321 km and walking 486 km (36 h flying, 82 h hiking). What did you since 17th July?

What did I?

• 80 h working
• 12 h biking (305 km)
• 0,5 h jogging (5 km)
• 0 h flying (because of the bad weather, but new speedbar mounted on my hangglider)
• 11 h driving car (982km)

 overall 1.292 km - not so bad.

 

 

Piedrahita - thoughts about the risks of our sport

The tragedy of Piedrahita makes us all think. The things we think are safe - are not, nor ever were. When I started flying, I was not thinking about the risk. There were no children and no wife. I was only responsible for myself. Even when I started my hangglider in dubious conditions. Everything went well - until I fell at one time under the ramp in the bushes. I was lucky, a few yards further and ... It could have been very bad. Thus, only the high-performance glider was damaged. A week later I was back with my beginner glider at the start and everything was ok.

When I founded my family, I have stopped flying. After my kids are a little bigger (the youngest now go to school), I have begun to fly again. The dream of flying was always present in my mind.