The World's Best Hang Gliding and Paragliding Cross Country Routes

Learn how to fly the best hang gliding and paragliding sites in the world – from the Dormillouse Run in St. Andres Les Alps, France to the Bingara Run in Manilla, Australia. Classic Routes includes:

• Thermal-by-thermal route maps
• World class photography
• Brilliant writing
• Edited by Bob Drury, Himalayan paragliding pioneer and Cross Country magazine editor 2005-2010

It is “our XC bible,” says photographer Jérôme Maupoint, author of Stolen Moments and Stolen Moments 2.                                  

Classic Routes contains step-by-step instructions on how to fly 20 of the best cross country sites in the world. Learn from the pilots who know these routes best:

• Complete the Grand Tour du Lac at Annecy, France with JC Skiera
• Find Piedrahita's famous convergence with Bob Drury
• Fly the Dolomites and topland the Marmolada with Felix Wolk
• Explore the Green Wall route in Nepal with Adam Hill
• Fly the Indian Himalayas, from Bir to Dharamsala with Jim Mallinson
• Go 133km in Porterville, South Africa with Greg Hamerton
• Cover 100km from Governador Valadares, Brazil with Jocky Sanderson
• Ride the ridges in Lake Elsinore, California with Mitch McAleer
• Fly Sun Valley, Idaho with Nate Scales
• Go 100km in Golden, Canada with Will Gadd
• Race an FAI triangle Austria's famous Zillertal Valley with Kelly Farina
• Fly 100km in the flatlands from Combe Gibbet England with Hugh Miller
• Complete a giant 200km FAI triangle starting from Fiesch, Switzerland with Roland Mader
• Run from Mount Olympus to the Point of the Mountain in Utah with Nick Greece
• and a half dozen more!

This hardback book is a large format coffee-table style book with beautiful full color photographs.