Team Pilot AirDesign
What is your nationality?
I’m a young French pilot
What’s your name?
Kilian Moni
Introduce yourself in a few words…
Before being a paragliding pilot, I’m an alpinist. I grew up in the south of France near the Mont Ventoux. It’s a place where there are many paragliders… My passion surely started there haha.
Ok to be serious, mountains take big part in my life. It’s more than a passion, it’s a need. Nowadays, I live in Chamonix, as close as possible of the Mont-Blanc and I’m a young rope access technician of 24 yo.
How do you practice paragliding?
I started paragliding 3 years ago because I hurt my knee while skiing during a new year day (I promise, it’s not because of alcohol). So I started with lot of hike and fly and after with run-and-fly to strengthen my knee. Then I connected my passion for climbing and mountainering to paragliding. So now I do climb and fly, ice & fly and more generally mountain & fly. But I’m getting closer and closer to real flights with some thermals and 2025 will be the year to start cross-country haha!
and AirDesign in all this ?
AirDesign… this is a little incredible family who welcomed me 2 years ago. It’s a real support in my paragliding practice and in my progress to have high-performance wings and especially the lightest possible. It’s a family that advocates beautiful values, and who is full of ambition! 2025 promises to be awesome !
Any comment? Go ahead!
My favorite wing is the RONIN, it follows me in all my adventures! And if you see it in the French Alps or on take-off on the top of a difficult-to-access and high mountain, tell yourself it may be me haha