Chrigel Maurer

Christian Maurer, known as Chrigel and nicknamed the Eagle of Adelboden, was born in 1982 and is a Swiss paragliding competition pilot and endurance athlete. He has won all eight editions of the Red Bull X-Alps hike-and-fly race held between 2009 and 2023, and has taken multiple titles at the paragliding World Cup, world, European and Swiss championships, plus four wins at the Pyrenean X-Pyr hike-and-fly race. In 2009 he set an aerobatic record of 210 consecutive infinity tumbles in a paraglider, a mark since surpassed. Raised in Adelboden in the Bernese Highlands, he first flew tandem with his father at the age of four, and since 2012 has advised and test flown for the paraglider makers Ozone and Advance.