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Parachute-Ski’s Michael Egger looks back on a long career

Michael Egger knows the sport of Parachute-Ski from all angles: a bird’s eye view as he jumps from a helicopter, inches from the snow as he flies around ski slalom poles, and - more sedately - from behind his desk as chair of the sport’s committee in the FAI Skydiving Commission.

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Taming gravity: junior indoor skydiver Máté Feith's rise to success

Clad from top to toe in white, Máté Feith steps into the wind tunnel. He rises, spins, floats and twists, light as a feather caught in a breeze. This fluid display of aerobatic prowess has taken seven months of intense training: fifty hours of meticulous practise, repeating moves over and over, and adjusting the smallest details to reach perfection.