Well. Respect to all the guys...

Blue sky today.. Let's see what happens...

Thomas and Clement are waiting for good flying conditions.. Fingers crossed...

Good flight. Good times...

Col de Joly.. Contamines, France.. 7 pm

Take off of today.. A good one. We advice..

Those words sound good...

Walking before flying... Direction take off...

Belgium and France getting ready for flying in Chamoson...

Support Thomas for the last hours!

El syndromo del Charly Chaplin me ha tocado otra ves...

60km already and more to come. Maybe I should just jump in the river and

swim to Martiny...

Just met Clem.. Man he has lost so much weight...

Let's see the Thomas fly in those conditions..

Take off Embd near Visp.

Take off Embd..

Direction Matterhorn..

I got stock in the mountains at 11... So I am in my light tent.. Good night.

Those sheeps followed me for an hour before I took off..

Simplon pass.. Let's see tomorrow..

Landing in direction of Simplon.. Let's do it!

I better find my way trough this mountains...

Pfff... I had a bad day.. Strong rain while under the cloud and grounded..

Let's show you your way of flying.. We support you and believe in your strenght..

They manage this lost of altitude, go up and fly in the west direction,

North of Locarno.

Let's fly as far as you can brother.

Take off of Bellinzona... Let's fly! Direction next turnpoint, saving your position...

Near lake como, direction lake lugano. On the road again!

This pick up help us so much, for meeting us, looking for take off,... Gatien

This pick up brings me everywhere. It help our team so much, for meeting us, looking for take off, and so and so... Gatien

Refugio San Jorio, Italie, tomorrow back in Switzerland..

Refugio San Jorio..

This pick up bring me everywhere. Gatien. Good for our team to have the Amarok for the race. It help us so much for meeting us, look for take off, and so and so..

Take off of Maloja... Let's fly with the wind... Cheers

Direction St Moritz, North way..

Take off direction Piz Palu

Sandwich size for athletes.. Take off Tirolo.

Passo Stelvio.. Let's tomorrow...

Let's plan...

We had a very nice flight together with Mickael.. Now on the fourth

position...

Near Merano. Safe landing. Finland manages that well.

Tre Cime, a good place for flying.

Tre Cime. Flying today? No rain, good weather, sun.. Let's see...

Tre Cime. We are waiting Thomas and Michael. Let's support!

Almost there. It feels good to be into the wild and not on the big roads

anymore...

Good to cross the border after 16 hours of walking...

Italia!!!

It's now time to leave Austria...

My Gradient is waterproof...

Look at the white line on the ground and do not think... 19 hours later you

might be in italy..

Take off near Boden. A video should be posted soon.

Thomas on the way of turnpoint Grobglockner.

Support Thomas. He is the best for us.

Thomas are going to claim the Dachtein today. Support him. It is a rainy day....

Thomas are going to claim the Dachstein today. Support him.

Top of Dachstein.. Too much wind for flying. Bad visibity.. Let's go by foot. Thomas, Vincent and Clement are together at this moment. Cheers

Hard time

Depart from Fuschl to Salzburg, Mozartplatz.

Thomas and Ferdi.

Here we are, I follow the briefings for the third time now. We have come trough all the important safety stuff and the difficults points of the route. We checked all the gears put the logos on.. Now we are all nervous and we want to start. It is great to meet all the friends here. This race is unique, most of all for its atmosphere. It's like a big family meeting every two years. Guys we have been suffering with in the past that came back, well trained and very motivated to get first to Monaco...

I just came back from 8 days in the alps. I first went to meet my friends from Sup'Air to work a litle bit on my harness. It was great to see them all and share ideas together. I am always amazed to see the passion they put into their brand. Pierre Bouilloux helped me with his development team and I stayed almost a day working with Kalida on the Delite. It is cool to share ideas with someone who knows. Pierre flies long bivouac and is used to climb mountain with his bagpack. I met my friend...

What a flight… Today we are taking a well deserved day of rest as yesterday was pretty epic…Our team is now in Gilgit sharing a mouton Karahi for diner in a noisy local Pakistany restaurant and trying to come down on earth. We have smiles on our face, clouds in our heads and the sound of screaming varios in our ears… It feels just great to share this with friends.

I dreamed about this flight some time ago when our friend Brad Sander flew 224km from Booni to Hunza in 2008 and broke the...

Is there a better place than the high mountains of the Karakoram to fly, hike and train? I am leaving tomorrow to meet my friends Hernan Pitocco and Horacio Llorens in Abu Dhabi. From there we get on a plane to Islamabad. Red Bull Pakistan will be waiting for us there. We will stay 3 days in the city waiting for the rest of the team. Then we go to Hunza. Hunza became famous trough the adventurous flights of John Sylvester and Brad Sanders. We are going there with a prod team to produce a film...

Not really the typical RBXA training but a lot of fun. We took off at 6:30am with Kris's hot air ballon (www.stepinballooning.be) and climbed to 1000m. for Once high enough, and for the first time in Belgium, we jumped. I came back home after breakfast and trained most of the day. I feel in good shape. I have lost some weight (around 5 kg sinds I started to train hard) now I have to stabilise and train some more. In 3 days I will be in Pakistan for the third time... Serious flying conditions...

The short film says it all..

I just received a big box full of the brand new Black Diamond gears I will bring to Pakistan next month... ;-) Looking forward to use it in real conditions... For now I am just climbing trees around my house and running around with my bagpack to train... The trekking poles are so light and super short when packed.. Perfect for the race too. The BD team also sent me a few headlamps for late night walk... Getting ready for the race. :-)

Hi all, here is a short trailer of some acro training in Mexico and Guatemala with some friends. It was not the typical Red Bull X Alps training but I was also flying a lots of XC and running up the hill every day.. :-) We had a lot of fun, the full version will come soon with roll overs from bridges, hot air balloons and some more action.. I hope you'll like it.

Cheers

All the gears are ariving to my place, gliders, harnesses, gloves, tents, etc... I am getting ready for a third expedition to Pakistan.. Hopefully I will come back in good shape after a hard training in real conditions... Karakoram here we come...

Here is a short description of our next expedition:

In Mai 2011, 4 of the worlds top acrobatic paragliders along with a specialist photographer and dedicated cinematographer will leave their hometowns across the world and meet for the first time...

I was happy to meet my fiends Richard and Max at the take off of Brévent above Chamonix this saterday. They were obviously coming for the same thing: Fly XC and cover some distance. We started fast and high, headed for Plaine joux and for the Aravis. Then we took the direction of Megeve and back to the Mont Blanc. I was amazed by the glacier. I flew right above it. It remembered me some flights in Pakistan. Then I went to col de Balme where I had my last flight at Red Bull X Alps 2009. So many...

I spent a day with the Belgian TV (RTBF) to prepare a TV show called "Weekend Sportif". They filmed a typical training day, runing, hiking, flying... Great team, super friendly and easy going. They ran up and down all day long to get the best footage.

I am happy to be able to talk about the race in such a TV show where normally it's all about Football, soccer and some more football... :-)

On air next sunday: 10 of april at 18.30 on RTBF.

Blue skies and soft landings,

Tom

It just arrived at my place yesterday... A brand new Amarok by Volkswagen. I believe it is going to be the perfect car to travel the alps, go on training and for my brother to follow me during the race... This car will take me in all my adventures around the world. I am now preparing the bivouac stuffs. Tent on the roof, fridge, etc...

For now, I am training every single day... I took my bike for 50km this morning and will run 10 km this evening. Next week I will be in the alps for some...

Hi all,

I would have enough stories to write an entire book about this trip... I arrived 2 and a half months ago in Valle de Bravo (Mexico) for XC training. I had great weather conditions and flew some distance almost everyday... This place is just amazing and there is a lots of pilots to fly with from all around the world... A lot of fun and a great spirit there. After 2 weeks there and already 35 hours of flight under my belt I decided to go to Tapalpa near Guadalajara. Great valley and...