Pierre Rémy

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Athlete

Pierre has always had his head in the clouds... He has been paragliding since the age of 12 and competing in distance events since he was 18. Introduced to it by his father, paragliding is today his passion, his life, his job, and his way of communing with the mountains and nature.

He is now moving towards a different competitive format, Hike and Fly, with his first major competition in 2022, the X-Pyr. In his spare time, he practises trail.

Key Achievement

French Under-21 Champion in 2004
French Champion 2009 and 2017
FAI World Champion 2017
PWCA World Champion 2018
3rd at the X-Pyr 2022
10th at the 2022 European Distance Championship
10th at the 2022 World Championship qualifier
7th at the 2022 World Cup Super Final
7th in the overall world ranking

Future projects

The Red Bull X-Alps 2025: one of the toughest adventure races in the world, covering up to 150km per day for nearly two weeks.
The X-Pyr 2024, a hike-and-fly race across the Pyrenees.
The 2023 World Championships in France at Montlambert.
The Mont-Blanc Air Tour 2023, a hike-and-fly race spanning three border countries.

Interview with Pierre Rémy

3 words that define you as an athlete?

Persevering. Hard-working. Sore loser (I accept it, but I work even harder)!

3 values that define you as a person?

Family, nature, enjoyment.

Why do you feel you belong to the Cimalp family?

Cimalp is a French eco-responsible brand that fits naturally into my professional life and champions values close to my own.

Your best and worst memory in the mountains — and why?

Both are linked to my main activity — flying. The highlight is undoubtedly the flight that gives me just as much joy every year: soaring above the highest peaks of the Pyrenean range — Vignemale, Balaïtous, the Gavarnie cirque.

The worst, without a doubt, was the day I made an emergency landing in a steep avalanche gully at around 2,500m, with plenty of snow still on the ground, and found myself stuck — feeling like a tourist in city trainers... That tourist still managed to get out of there, reach the ridge, and fly home!

What do the mountains inspire in you?

An enormous playground, and freedom!

What's your relationship with the environment and ecology?

I don't really take personal actions for the environment except using my legs to go flying or skiing. But I actively contribute through my work as a paraglider designer: 100% French and local production, local jobs, and environment-related projects such as traction kites for cargo ships.

Another great passion or talent beyond sport?

All my passions are more or less connected to sport and the mountains.