STEP BY STEP
“Every journey starts with a single step,” goes the saying. Or when you look it up it’s actually, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” and it’s attributed to Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu. It can also be translated as “A thousand mile journey begins where one stands”. Several of our stories in this issue follow this exact philosophy, and nowhere more clearly than with Chrigel Maurer and Peter von Känel’s incredible adventure through the Alps this season. On the day they set off they hadn’t even decided if it was a training flight for their “Big Idea” or whether they were actually starting. As Tarquin Cooper writes in his interview with them both: “It was cloudy and windy at the pass, far from ideal, but they…