Classic Routes

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

Classic Routes is a collection of 20 of the finest paragliding and hang gliding cross country routes in the world, told through stories and photos. 

Bubbling with inspiration and packed with information, these Classic Routes are personal adventures, where some of the greatest names in paragliding and hang gliding guide us through some of the finest landscapes in the world. 

Tour France’s Lake Annecy; ride massive convergence in Spain‘s Piedrahita; top land the Marmolada in Italy; surf jungles in Nepal, rock walls in Austria and castles in Germany till exhaustion and ecstasy force you to land for a cold beer in Australia’s outback. Then pick Classic Routes up the next day and start all over again. 

With stories, glide-by-glide guides, hand-illustrated maps and the best photography from Cross Country magazine‘s pool of photographers, Classic Routes blends a mixture of flatland and mountains, desert and jungle, urban and remote to deliver what we hope you will find to be not just the ultimate XC pilot’s tick list, but a ‘book of flying dreams’. 

192 Pages - Hardback - Coffee Table Book 

Classic Routes - More Info

Classic Routes is a collection of 20 of the finest paragliding and hang gliding cross country routes in the world, told in stories and photos by some of the greatest names in the sports.

Paragliding and hang gliding are exciting and emotive adventure sports. Combining the fast reflex excitement of rally driving, the cerebral knowledge of chess with the inherent luck of poker, these sports take their participants on an absorbing adventure across the skies of the world using sun and wind alone as fuel. 

Hunting out invisible currents of air to ride to great heights, paraglider and hang glider pilots hop like knights across a chessboard in an intoxicating adventure game of the purest form. It’s exciting, exacting and enthralling – man versus nature in a raw and tenacious battle of nerve and intuition. 

Like great climbs, the classic paragliding and hang gliding routes are legendary adventures. This book is a collection of them, told through the words and pictures of some of the world’s most experienced pilots. Fly with them as they guide us through some of the finest landscapes in the world. Classic Routes blends a mixture of flatland and mountains, desert and jungle, urban and remote to deliver what we hope you will find to be a ‘book of flying dreams’. 

Classic Routes - The Routes

AMERICAS 

• 01 – GOLDEN, CANADA
• 02 – SUN VALLEY, IDAHO
• 03 – SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
• 04 – LAKE ELSINORE, CALIFORNIA
• 05 – GOVERNADOR VALADARES, BRAZIL

EUROPE 

• 06 – VAGA, NORWAY
• 07 – SNOWDONIA, WALES
• 08 – COMBE GIBBET, ENGLAND
• 09 – BAVARIA, GERMANY
• 10 – ZILLERTAL, AUSTRIA
• 11 – DOLOMITES, ITALY
• 12 – FIESCH, SWITZERLAND
• 13 – ANNECY, FRANCE
• 14 – ECRINS, FRANCE
• 15 – ST ANDRE-LES-ALPES, FRANCE
• 16 – PIEDRAHITA, SPAIN 

REST OF THE WORLD 

• 17 – PORTERVILLE, SOUTH AFRICA
• 18 – MANILLA, AUSTRALIA
• 19 – POKHARA, NEPAL
• 20 – BIR, INDIA

Hardcover: 192 pages. Language: English. Product Dimensions: 30 x 3 x 25 cm

ISBN-10: 0957072708

ISBN-13: 978-0957072701