The Journey - A Flying Story DVD

Product Review (submitted on 7 June 2010):

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).