Queenstown’s Acrofest – celebrating extreme sports like paragliding and hang-gliding. 

The finals of the fifth annual Acrofest last Sunday above a packed Queenstown Bay attracted several thousand spectators. 

Not bad for an event with little advertising and no fixed date – organiser Craig Taylor just decides to run the finals when the weather’s decent. 

“It’s definitely growing,” Taylor says. 

“It shows how good the event is. It’s just word of mouth and people come and end up spending the whole day on the beach.” 

Along with finalists competing in the acrobatic paragliding competition, other extreme sports are showcased purely for entertainment. 



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