Markus Gründhammer

"crazyness has a name: markus gruendhammer". thats how he describes himself and his company, wings of change – production, development, maintenance and repair as well as distribution of paragliding equipment. and as you can imagine already: paragliding is the subject of his crazyness. in 25 years of "flying" he did more than 10,000 flights and achieved many awards.

originally markus has been mountaineering. he never enjoyed descending though. one day he observed someone starting his paraglider from the top of a mountain and from this moment on he knew how he would be descending in the future....
 

for his hike and fly trips markus needs equipment that is balanced out perfectly. when descending steep pitches he trusts on the precise grip of the tyrol P12 and  on an iceaxe that is selected depending on the terrain. once on top, he his preparing his chute and clips into the powerfly.