Feb 20, 2020 | Campaigns, Paragliders, Top-News
Königsspitze – Hochjochgrat – OrtlerIt is mid-January and instead of copious amounts of the finest powder snow, there is only some snow above 2000m. A long period of high pressure and low winds is expected. The avalanche situation is rather relaxed....
Jan 27, 2020 | Campaigns, Harness, Paragliders, Top-News
Menthosa Peak – Expedition Blog 6 – Final Blog After spending one day in Vashist – a small mountain village nearby Manali – having Indian Thali, filling up our food supply and spending some time in the local hotsprings, we were thinking about...
Jan 14, 2020 | Harness, Paragliders, Top-News
Menthosa Peak – Expedition Blog 5 The alarm goes off at 6 am. After the exhausting day yesterday, we slept quite well. But as we have only two more good weather days left, before a new system will bring snowfall and high winds, we have to get going. The...
Dec 17, 2019 | Campaigns, Events, Paragliders
RISE&FALL 2019 in Mayrhofen “Four athletes, one team, no mercy!” – This motto applies all over again on 14th December 2019 at the 8th RISE&FALL event in Mayrhofen. This unique relay contest with the four disciplines of ski tour, paraglide,...
Dec 9, 2019 | Campaigns, Harness, Paragliders, Top-News
Menthosa Peak – Expedition Blog 4 Acclimatization has been going well but to stick to the plan we have to go continuously higher! So finally the time has come to move to the higher mountains in the backside. This goes along with limited food resources,...
Nov 26, 2019 | Campaigns, Harness, Paragliders, Top-News
Menthosa Peak – Expedition Blog 3 (Through the eyes of Nico Manthos) After spending a lot of time with planning and preparing this trip, I’m finally on a plane to Delhi. Markus already awaits me in India and is hoping I’ll bring some...
Nov 19, 2019 | Campaigns, Harness, Paragliders, Top-News
Menthosa Peak – Expedition Blog 2 – Equipment For an expedition like this it´s super important to keep every single piece of gear as light as possible, since we must carry everything by ourselves. So our goal was to carefully pick only the things we...
Nov 9, 2019 | Campaigns, Harness, Other, Paragliders
My name is Christian Lutz and I’m head of Marketing Central Europe for Salewa. I originally come from Stuttgart, where I was fortunate enough to haven gotten to know the mountains as a child on summer nights and skiing in the winter. After moving from London to...
Nov 8, 2019 | Campaigns, Harness, Paragliders, Top-News
Menthosa Peak – Expedition Blog 1 Hey together, over the next few weeks we will take you along on an adventurous paragliding expedition into the heart of the Indian Himalaya. It combines bivouac flying with high altitude mountaineering and yet some...
Oct 4, 2019 | Campaigns, Paragliders, Top-News
The fun machine – OUT NOW! Energetic. Direct.The TONIC2 is the fun machine in our mini-wing range. The super-compact wing with short span and short lines is aimed at those who like to soar in strong winds or close to the slope. We like to call the TONIC2 the...
