Tim
Alongi

Tim Alongi’s road to Red Bull X-Alps is the stuff of Hollywood. He is the champion acro pilot who gave it all up to focus on the world’s toughest adventure race, then suffered the near disaster six months before the start when he broke his back skiing. But he battled back, took part as a rookie and finished in 7th place. Rarely has there been a more emotional moment on the landing float.

He says he’s keen “to experience the same emotions once again with my team and to make a better performance.” In 2023 Tim already showed he has the ability and creativity to make some genius moves – one was to have a lie in and catch up on some much needed sleep rather than hike to launch. In the end, the tactic paid off and he made up the distance in the sky.