The design of the race is simple: 30 pilot-athletes race from Salzburg to Monaco using only their feet and their paraglider. Chrigel Maurer completed the 1,050km straight-line course in almost exactly one week – incredible!
My job was easy. I just had to hang out at various spots and grab interviews and photos of athletes as they went past. This was a bit like hunting for deer. The Alps are big and these guys are very fleet of foot. They move fast, don't slow down and leave you for dust. One of them even left me trailing as he slid down the bannisters in front of me. Anything to save a few seconds.
I left the party as it headed into Switzerland. A great week.
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| Me, on the job |
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| The start of the Red Bull X-Alps 2013 |
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| Felix Baumgartner's space jump suit in Salzburg |
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| The Red Bull hangar in Salzburg |
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| Start of the X-Alps 2013 |
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| Felix Wolk, a legendary paragliding photographer |
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| The cliffs of the Dachstein in Austria. We chased the athletes, and this was one of their turnpoints. We got a cablecar, they climbed. |
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| An athlete launching from the Dachstein |
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| A supporter launching from the Dachstein |
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| An X-Alps pilot launching from the top of the Zugspitze, Germany's highest peak |
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| Interviewing Babu Sunuwar in his team van before the start of the race |
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| Photographers at work before the Red Bull X-Alps 2013 starts, in Fuschl am Zee |
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