Paramotor Magazine, issue 18, April / May 2010
‘I just love it all.’ Thomas de Dorlodot isn’t afraid to push the boundaries. From flying the Red Bull X-Alps to paramotoring K2, he’s your man. By Bob Drury and Ed Ewing
“I’m just back from two months in the Himalayas.” According to his latest blog entry Thomas de Dorlodot has fallen in love with flying all over again. This time it’s acro. “I went to the famous Pokhara in Nepal and had six flights a day above water for 30 days.”
Like him, Thomas’s blog doesn’t sit still for a second. In 184 words he covers two months, two countries, 3,000 km, one motorbike adventure, hundreds of flights, one new flying discipline (acro) and the making of a short film.
A look at his CV confirms it has always been like this. After being student president at his school in Belgium and playing rugby at a high level, he studied communications in Brussels followed by a two-year masters in photography at the school of art in Granada, Spain.
In 2007, aged 21, he was the youngest-ever athlete to compete in the Red Bull X-Alps (hike, run and free-fly 800 km across the Alps as fast as you can – against the wind). He loved it so much he did it again in 2009...
Read the rest online, subscription required
Listen to the podcast of this interview
0 comments:
Post a Comment