Stories have power. They shape how we see the world, and how we see each other. A good story stays with you. It cuts through the noise. It can shift a perspective, build a bridge, or remind you there’s still beauty and meaning in places most people never think to look. The stories on this page are born from moments that couldn’t be captured in a single image, but needed to be told.
Rajan is one of the few salt water swimming elephants on Earth. Initially trained to carry out brutal logging work in the Andaman Islands in the 70’s, he was forced to swim with massive loads. Now retired, at 60 years old he is the last of the group to survive.
Our mission was to paraglide the full length of the California Sierra Mountains in a series of connected flights, navigating hostile terrain to link onto the Warner Range and cross the border into Oregon – a distance of 800km. If successful, the route would break the North American record for cross-country distance- own vol biv-style.
A 37 day full traverse of the Alaska range by foot and paraglider by athletes Gavin McClurg and Dave Turner. They had been pinned down here for 8 days in snowstorms, right on the western edge of Denali National park waiting for a flyable window to attempt the crux of the expedition- flying across Denali National Park. After 37 days of treacherous river crossings, endless bush wacking, bears and starvation they finally made their goal.
The sun has set, we have been flying most of a day that none of us wants to end. I haven’t even thought about landing, I want to fly until I cannot see. We are still a long way from where the dinghy should be and I’m hoping it is just the light that robs us of the view. But in my gut I know we are screwed. Marooned.
The goal was always to go deep into the unknkown in search of surf. Our rail journey began from an iron mining center in the Sahara, snaking through the desert toward a port town on the west coast of Africa. My aim was to try and to capture the spirit of adventure and exploration through this incredible landscape. To me this trip was about falling in love with the hardship and inevitable beauty in the process of getting there.
Thanks in part to advances in wing technology, a few pioneering paragliders are smashing the limits by completing long-distance flights that were once thought impossible. Last spring, high-fliers Will Gadd and Gavin McClurg pulled off one of the most ambitious trips ever attempted: 385 miles down the jagged, frozen, potentially deadly spine of the Canadian Rockies.
