Swiss Paraglider Christian Maurer victorious in Red Bull X-Alps
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 14:34 Dion Vuk
Red Bull X-Alps Update July 28/11, 14:00: crossing the alps in the ultimate paragliding and mountaineering adventure race. Swiss paragliding pilot Christian Maurer finished first today in an outstanding 11 days 4 hours and 22 minutes! Watch the video of Christian earn victory here.
Paraglider pilot Toma Coconea of Romania is still climbing mountains in the dark, in second, 171 km out. Meanwhile, Austrian paraglider Paul Guschlbauer sleeps only 8 km behind.
Europe is 9 hours ahead, so most of the paragliding athletes are sleeping now, while some climb through the night, vying for position. Tommorrow should be an epic battle with paragliding weather forecast to improve for those that have passed Mont Blanc and are on the last 225 km of the race course.
The race will officially close 16:22 Sat. July 30, so the remaining athletes have only 48 hours to improve their paragliding position, make it to Monaco, or not! Follow the paragliding competition action, live with realtime GPS tracking here.
Reader Comments (1)
Following this race has been a real eye-opener for sure. To see what the top pilots in the world are doing is amazing and seeing the limits of what is possible in a paragliding cross country trip just blew me away. Not to mention that I think this is the first time that I've ever seen my partner not only interested in a sporting event but actively following it daily!
Only thing missing from this was more Canadian representatives! I know there are more out there than just Max Fandrel!