Team Geared Up

BANGKOK, THAILAND (Team Geared Up) - BBC Scotland followed Ulric Jessop on the 2007 Red Bull X-Alps paragliding challenge. The X-Alps race is an 850km flying and mountain climbing race across the European Alps where competitors armed only with their paraglider must scale high enough to jump and get the maximum distance before repeating. The route goes from East to West along the main rib of the alps.

X-Alps the documentary is showing on TV tomorrow.

The documentary, X-Alps, The World’s Most Extreme Race, will be shown on BBC Scotland on Tuesday 30th October at 7:00pm.

It will also be available on the BBC IPlayer service for those in the UK. Thanks to Paratiger for the email to tip us off about this.

-Robin-