The Journey DVD

Customer Reviews

Highly entertaining, thought-provoking, breathtaking flying footage - totally inspiring! Review by Carlo Borsattino, Flybubble Paragliding

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Greg Hamerton's new paragliding film may not be quite as slick as some of the glossy productions out there (although don't get me wrong, as the production quality of this film is very good - better than many others) but it certainly has a lot to like about it in terms of it's uniqueness and entertainment. This highly entertaining, thought-provoking flying adventure film sees Greg embark on life-changing journey, with only his paraglider as travelling companion, as he attempts to break away from the mundane trivialities of modern living. He confronts his inner fears and insecurities head on and is forced to lose some unnecessary baggage - both physical and psychological - along the way... All in all a fantastic film that delves deep into the eternal question: "Why do we fly!?!?" and reaches the parts (of a paraglider pilot's mind) that other paragliding films dare not go.

The flying footage is excellent, Greg's lyrical dialogue wholly engaging, the editing well-paced and cleverly done, and the end result is absolutely excellent. Highly recommended , both for paraglider pilots and their non-flying friends!

Carlo Borsattino, Flybubble Paragliding

(Posted on 07/06/2010)

The story is good, the flying interesting, the scenery magical Review by Joe Schofield, Skywings Magazine

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The Journey is on the surface an account of a bivvy trip into some of South Africa's wildest and most remote flying country, but it also chronicles a pilot's inner journey from couch-potato to cerebral being, liberated from his earthbound self by the medium of flying. By the end of the film the protagonist is pretty much not of this earth, having become one with the air. So far so predictable, but this is all shot against some of the most forbidding landscape it's possible to fly in (OK, the Karakorum excepted), and it's really the scenery that steals the show.

The story is good, the flying interesting, the scenery magical and the journey, in the end, is quite believable. What emerges is somewhere between a flying odyssey and Kerouac's Desolation Angels, where solitude and raw nature become the very stuff of existence.

Joe Schofield, Skywings Magazine*

* Skywings is the official magazine of the British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association (BHPA).

(Posted on 07/06/2010)