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PATRICK

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Flying, flying, flying - I was basically born with a paraglider in my cradle.

Here is why - in the mid 80s the first paragliders were seen in the Swiss sky and my parents were some of those early flying pioneers.

 

Ten years later, in 1994, I was born. As a baby I already felt drawn upwards. For many summers since the age of 7 I went to Alp to help my grandmother and save some money for my paragliding course.

 

By the time I had turned 14 I convinced my mother one day to leave her paraglider with me so I could do some ground handling while she went away with my father in the mountains. I was soon bored of just ground handling so I went to a steep slope and took off for the first time by myself. It was Hara-Kiri style and I was two years under the legal age limit for flying. I didn’t realise it at the time but other paraglider pilots at the Frutigen Hangar had seen me take off and hence my mother later tried to forbid me from flying. My father convinced her it would be safer if I continued to take lessons.

 

My training consisted of hours and hours on the training slopes doing short flights before I could do a real high flight. Finally in April 2010 I got the chance for my first high flight. As I stood waiting on take off shrouded in fog i was nervous if I could fly but the instructor gave me the green light and I launched. After a few seconds flying through the fog I burst into the sunlight and I knew, this is it. This is what I want to do.

 

I got my paragliding certificate at 16 and I have been flying above the clouds ever since!

SUCCESSES

2024

  • Autonomous Home:
    Together with 3S Swiss Solar Solutions, I transformed my home into an energy-autonomous residence.

  • Tunnel Flight:
    World record paragliding flight through a 152-meter-long road tunnel.

2023

  • Red Bull Athlete

  • Eigertour 3th

  • Red Bull X-Alps 5th

2022

  • 3rd Eigertour Summer

  • 2nd Eigertour Winter with Nicolas Hojac

2021

  • 3rd Swiss championship

  • 2nd Red Bull X-Alps

2019/2020

  • 1st XContest National

  • 1st Eigertour (Switzerland)

  • 3rd Vercofly (Switzerland)

  • 8th Red Bull X-Alps

  • Personal Best 556Km (Brazil)

  • 1st Dolomity Superfly (Italy)

NEXT STEPS

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Next Steps
REFERENZEN
MEDIA

MEDIA

ADVENTURES

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BIKE TO FLY

Ride Magazin

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BIKE TO FLY

Ride Magazin

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BIKE TO FLY

Ride Magazin

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BIKE TO FLY

Ride Magazin

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BIKE TO FLY

Ride Magazin

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BIKE TO FLY

Ride Magazin

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BIKE TO FLY

Ride Magazin

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BIKE TO FLY

Ride Magazin

X-ALPS

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ROAD TO X-Alps 2021

Maurer & von Känel

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Red Bull Blog Nr.2

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ROAD TO X-Alps 2021

Red Bull Blog Nr.1

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ROAD TO X-Alps 2021

Red Bull Blog Nr.3

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ROAD TO X-Alps 2021

Red Bull Blog Nr.4

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ROAD TO X-Alps 2021

Red Bull Blog Nr.5

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ROAD TO X-Alps 2021

Red Bull Blog Nr.6

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ROAD TO X-Alps 2021

Red Bull Blog Nr.7

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RED BULL X-Alps 2021

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