Guillaume is a Belgian engineer and filmmaker who is passionate about mountains in general. He started mountaineering at a young age and it soon became obvious that he needed to take on paragliding to avoid long downhills! So he did! He soon discovered that you can also go up using your paraglider, and cover a lot of distance ! XC flying became his main interest and during the summer of 2023, he embarked on an adventure to cross the Alps by paraglider from Slovenia to Nice, climbing the most emblematic peaks on the way with friends. "It was a crazy journey!" (He's making a movie about that, coming soon !). After the traverse he took advantage of his good flying shape and the incredible conditions of August 2023 to fly several big triangles with the Base 2 Lite, including my first 200k FAI. Guilaume has a lot of plans for new adventures, and would like to start XC and hike & fly competitions with the goal of having fun and becoming a better pilot.
Account of an improvised vol-bivouac starting from Vallouise in the Écrins, aiming to go as far as possible toward Switzerland — and even Austria. Ещё
Guillaume Funck takes us along for his first ever taste of paragliding competition, BGD Weightless, whcih was held in laragne, France in June 2025. Ещё
Hello everyone, My second ferry arrived around 3:30 p.m. in Çeşme, on the Turkish coast; it was three hours late. The weather was still pretty lousy, with heavy downpours, and the crossing from Chios was a bit rough. After some hesitation in the pouring rain, I decided to set off as soon as there...
Hello everyone, It feels like it’s been six months since I last wrote anything, but in reality it’s only been about ten days! After a more relaxed day in Dubrovnik, I continued south through Montenegro, past the magnificent Bay of Kotor and the Serpentine – those endless hairpin turns overlooking...
Hello everyone, For those who aren’t aware, I’m currently cycling to Pakistan from Grenoble. The plan is to stay there for three months this summer to do a lot of paragliding and a bit of mountaineering. I’ve been on the road for two weeks now and things are going well; I’ve covered roughly...
Congratulations to Guillaume Funck, whose film La Paralpine won two prestigious awards in the Icares du Cinema at the Coupe Icare 2024. The film won the Icare d’Or as well as the Icare de la Presse.
After months of editing and post-production, we're as delighted as Guillaume Funk to announce the avant-premiere of his film ‘La Paralpine’ on 20 June at 8.30pm at the ‘Le Stockel’ cinema (Av. de Hinnisdael 17, 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre) in Brussels. The film documents his summer 2023 vol-bivouac...
25-year-old Belgian mountain addict Guillaume Funck has spent the last few weeks on a big project: crossing the Alps from Slovenia to Nice, stopping on the way to climb some iconic mountains. He took with him a Base 2 Lite and an Anda. 6 June 2023 It's been almost a week since Tonio and I set off to...