Paragliding is really GREAT…
Welcome to a wonderful place, where your dreams of flying like a bird finally come true. Experience this unique feeling here in Ticino, the sunny side of the Swiss-Alps. Ascona-Locarno offers ideal conditions for all sorts of paragliding flights, either to enjoy and relax, to catch some thermals or to have fun with some acrobatics over the lake. Paragliding tandem flights are suitable for everyone, come and fly with us.
Paragliding is GREAT…
Welcome to a wonderful place, where your dreams of flying like a bird finally come true. Experience this unique feeling here in Ticino, the sunny side of the Swiss-Alps. Ascona-Locarno offers ideal conditions for all sorts of paragliding flights, either to enjoy and relax, to catch some thermals or to have fun with some acrobatics over the lake. Paragliding tandem flights are suitable for everyone, come and fly with us.
Passion for paragliding
We are Mountaingliders, a team of local pilots together for one mission: sharing the magic of flight with everybody. Go paragliding with professional tandem pilots.
Passion for paragliding
We are Mountaingliders, a team of local pilots together for one mission: sharing the magic of flight with everybody. Go paragliding with professional tandem pilots.
- Takeoff in Cimetta
Landing in Locarno/Ascona
Altitude difference 1450m
- Flight duration 20...60 minutes depending on thermal conditions
- Time slots of 2.5 hours for the whole activity
- Meeting point at Camping Delta in Locarno
- No special skills needed, we take care of everyone from 4 years old and... up to 125kg
- Last-minute appointments possible
- Photo & Video: CHF 25.- with our GoPro or bring your own camera at no charge
- Transportation costs: CHF 20.- or free with mountainglidersCARD or Welcome Card
- It's about hiking up the mountain, enjoying the view and being rewarded with a spectacular flight back down the valley
- Consider your appropriate fitness for the hike
- Activity duration 3...8 hours, depending on the choosen location
- Pilots carry all the equipment to the top. If you're fit enough, you can help them with all the heavy stuff
- Consider some extra costs, i.e. transportation, food
- Taxi service is also possible: we pick you up from almost every mountain hut in Ticino
- Hike & Fly adventures are always further customizable, find some of the most common packages under details
- Families can take advantage of an interesting discount on a tandem flight for their kids, they pay only their
age in years × CHF 10.-
if accompanied by a full paying adult
- All our customers get a mountainglidersCARD, which is like a voucher to save on the transportation costs of the next flight. If you don't use it, feel free to give it anyone you like
- We are proud partner of the Ascona-Locarno Welcome Card 2018, take it with you and save on the transportation costs
- Flights from different locations? Please contact us, we can arrange almost everything for you
12 years of experience
Since 2006 our team of selected and local pilots provides the most complete paragliding experience in Ticino. Authenticity matters and more than 12 years of evolution is worth nothing without very good people.
12 years of experience
Since 2006 our team of selected and local pilots provides the most complete paragliding experience in Ticino. Authenticity matters and more than 12 years of evolution is worth nothing without very good people.
Oh what a feeling! Glorious flight with Mountaingliders over the Lago and soaring above the Cimetta. It was our first tandem flight and we felt safe and well-guided by Thio and Michael. Thank you for the fantastic experience!United States
Fantastic experience, pretty scary at first but Michael was great and after a while it was just great. This was my first tandem-jump, probably won't be my last!Norway
DO IT! If you are in Ascona/Locarno and looking for a stunning, peaceful way to experience the view, go with Thio and his experienced team. My husband and I are open to new adventures, but not thrill seekers by any means. This experience would be good for children and adults alike. This is the closest experience to flying like a bird you will receive! And such a view with a great team that makes you feel comfortable and at ease.Iran
Total satisfaction guaranteed
We believe that our service is top-notch and therefore payment is always at the end of your flight and, seriously, only if you smile. Total satisfaction guaranteed, with Mountaingliders only.
Total satisfaction guaranteed
We believe that our service is top-notch and therefore payment is always at the end of your flight and, seriously, only if you smile. Total satisfaction guaranteed, with Mountaingliders only.
Total satisfaction
guaranteed
We believe that our service is top-notch and therefore payment is always at the end of your flight and, seriously, only if you smile. Total satisfaction guaranteed, with Mountaingliders only.
Thanks to Caroline, Luca and Fabio Balassi
Thank you Pietro, it was an amazing flight
Skip forward to 5:30 for Mountaingliders’s experience… Thank you Vagabrothers
A flight with Mountaingliders for “The perfect Date” – a movie by Mercedes Benz
Pilot Ale Bisi demonstrates some ground handling with a tandem paraglider
Acrobatics over the lake: nice wing-overs filmed with the GoPro Fusion
Paragliding with kids
Paragliding with kids
Multilingual
We speak Italian, German, French, English and Spanish.
Your phone call will also be answered in fluent Schwiizerdüütsch!
Multilingual
We speak Italian, German, French, English and Spanish. Your phone call will also be answered in fluent Schwiizerdüütsch!
Multilingual
We speak Italian, German, French, English and Spanish. Your phone call will also be answered in fluent Schwiizerdüütsch!
The best place to fly
The lovely view from Cimetta is absolutely unique, as it allows two extremes of our country to be seen: Switzerland’s lowest spot, the delta of the Maggia river between Ascona and Locarno, and the highest spot, Dufourspitze, situated on the Monte Rosa massif and which carves its way through the imposing Alpine chain to the west of the horizon.