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Benjamin is flying right now at roughly 57 km/h. View current Location. He and his support team are 107 km outside of Steinbach, Manitoba and anticipate arriving there on July 4th, 2009.

He is flying a Powered Paraglider 10,000 km across Canada to help send kids to camp!

Funds raised in Manitoba will go to the The Sunshine Fund, a local charity that has provided nearly 19,000 summer camp experiences since 1979! Click here to donate.

They have paused for a few days to take have some vehicle maintenance done and wait out the week between school being let out and summer camps starting up.
Adventure at Altitude Fundraiser in Steinbach, MBView Post
July 4th, 2009 - Steinbach - PermalinkAll Events
Adventure at Altitude will be hosting a fund raising event for "Above and Beyond Canada " this Saturday July 4 at the "Adventure At Altitude" hanger in Steinbach, Manitoba.

There will be a BBQ, DJ Mix Master, Hot Tub, and hanger dance party starting after the flying is done this Saturday to raise money. There will be door prize draws for a free flight, and there may even be an "Elvis" sighting and performance!!!

Also a portion of hang glider and ulralight tandem flights that day ($20 each ) and $5 per tow will go to the cause, so bring your friends and family out for a flight, buy some BBQ food, bring your swim trunks, enter the draws, and join in the fun to help get kids from low-income families to camp this weekend.
BC - Vancouver IslandView Film
June 28th, 2009 - Tofino - 6 MinAll Films
Music: Ulrich Shnauss

Late but great ..it has taken us a while to get in the groove of paragliding across Canada from school to school whilst creating our giant formations of children.

Finally, our first of what will be many glorious videos, this edit is made up of footage taken during the first three days as we crossed the width of Vancouver Island, BC.
Brandon to CarberryView Album
June 27th, 2009 - Brandon - 27 PhotosAll Albums
Surfing the tailwinds of a storm, holding it's position firmly 10 minutes behind, we made a dash towards Portage but made a cautious landing in the town of Carberry, due to increasing gusts from the big black wall on our tail.

10 minutes later it w
Almost rained out in Brandon, MBView Post
June 26th, 2009 - Brandon - PermalinkEntire Blog
We got to Brandon Manitoba yesterday! Brandon is our first stop in Manitoba and were so excited to finally have some calm skies and a wonderfully curious community to land in.

As Ben approached the town, people stopped their cars and got out to take a look at this strange lawn mower sound coming from the sky. The radios picked up our story and the newspapers and tv were stoked to come and check us out.

Thanks for the warm welcome Brandon!

But Friday morning came...and the rain came with it. We did everything we could to push back the presentation to avoid the rain. But important year end commitments and graduation kept us from giving Riverview School the full deal.

Luckily, The rain stopped for just a moment and Ben managed to stay in the sky just long enough to photograph students in a Raven formation.

It was super great fun to be in Brandon. Thank you Riverview for your patience and energy.
Have a wonderful Summer.

-Keren