Solo-Bivouac flight on a Paraglider across
the Carpathian Arc in summer 2005

The Alps are an overexploited region being visited by many thousand pilots and all the rest of people who travel there. There is hardly a valley without a road, a house or a ski pist and a hiking trail to lead people to their shelters and summits. 

It’s an all-too-perfect, well-managed environment. Tamed wilderness. Structured leisure!

My heart is still looking for adventure in lust for life. As I have already been flying bivouac across the Alps in various directions years ago I am now looking for something new, something more like “virgin soil”.

There I want to go: pushing into the Unknown, crossing into a new dimension of explorative PG – a course, never been done before, as well.

Infrastructure – which? The streets, fields, villages and people can be called “basic” at best.

By following along the wild Carpathians of Transsilvania I will not meet a legendary Dracula amidst of deep, shadowy canyons and forests but nevertheless a great and unlimited adventure.

Far from most of the roads these rugged mountain ranges cross endless forests and long canyons.

It is loneliness and encounter as well: meeting the shepherds and the mountain people, meeting with yourself and your fears.

XCarpatia is more then a dream and a journey, it is more than a record flying or a flying by itself. XCarpatia is a way back to the roots of perception as our way through life is a journey of perceptions.

It brings me back to the essential spirits of my life as an adventure.

Man, myself, meeting freedom, meeting his dreams and his fears, meeting up once more with his realities, his abilities, whether to achieve or to fail the way he choose.