Antoine Girard is just back from a 2-month expedition to Pakistan, where he and his six companions were aiming to do a series of combined paragliding ascents. By flying in from a base camp 40 km away, Antoine managed to climb Spantik in less than a day. On the last day of the expedition, he broke his own paragliding altitude record for a valley take-off by reaching 8,407 metres. We meet the man who is carving out a new form of Himalayism that is extremely committing but has great potential.
Ever heard of Baltoro? Antoine Girard has spent 6 months of his life there. In 2016, he set an altitude record at 8,157 metres while paragliding over Broad Peak (8,047 m). In 2019, he and Damien Lacaze completed an incredible expedition during which the intrepid pair covered huge distances by bivying between flights. They also achieved the first paragliding-mountaineering