FORMER Monmouth School students Jamie Fowler and Toby Osborne will be participating in an 800 mile unsupported paramotoring air-race in the USA on the 12th of October.

The Icarus Flying Trophy race starts in Eatonville, Washington and ends at Valley Springs, California. As a pioneering race the route is completely unscripted, and the pilots will fly across a range of landscapes, from vast deserts to mountain ranges.

The two competitors are new to the sport, but have been training since May on Mersea Island on the Essex coastline. They face the very best pilots form around the world, including America, Canada, France and Switzerland.

Mr Fowler said: “Having spent my childhood growing up in rural Herefordshire and Monmouth Boys School, I have always enjoyed an adventure of sorts. Be that floating down the River Wye on a tractor inner tube or clambering the boarding house roof after lights out. The natural progression was to take to the skies!”

To support and follow their progress, go to www.coolearth.org/612/cool

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