Cross Country: Issue 136

Cross Country magazine, issue 136, July/August 2011

A big issue, with lots on the forthcoming Paragliding World Championships, including a Piedrahita site guide by Steve Ham and a profile with R11 designer Luc Armant. Story of the issue though has to be the amazing Everest flight by Babu Sunuwar. He climbed to the summit, flew from the top and landed 30km away. Go Babu!

Read Cross Country issue 136 here

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And read my online report of Babu Sunuwar's historic feat here. This was a great buzz to work on. He actually climbed without a permit and did the whole trip under the radar. The result was when I got to speak to him by phone in Namche Bazar in Nepal he was in hiding. Drunk on chang, but in hiding! This was also XCmag.com's biggest story ever, attracting traffic from around the world.

Babu Sunuwar on the top of the world

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