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Our Himalayan Odyssey is complete!  Brad and I met up again last night in Bhojpur , still 94 km from the India border.  After three days grounded by strong wind, one flying in air too wild for our humble aircraft,  and another walking from our respective landing places to our Bhojpur rendezvous, it took us [...]

[Time travel back to when we were stuck in Pokhara waiting for good weather.  This was written then (day 32) but has apparently been lost in computer limbo till now.]

Time for a bit of reflection brings me to the subject of gear.
Last year I lined up all my important gear at the last minute and [...]

Hey! I have a real blog now.  (It took arriving in such a developed place to realize that I didn’t really have one before.  Thanks Manoj for hooking it all up.)  So I’m posting 3 catch-up blog posts to bring me up to date:
Day 29 – On our way to launch above Pokhara and, hopefully [...]

Himalayan Odyssey was featured in Daily Planet show on Discovery Channel, Canada on April 1, 2010.
Here is the link to the clip

Himalayan guru Brad Sander is currently half way across the Indian Himalayas on the Himalayan Odyssey, an expedition organised by the American. Assembling a team of seven pilots Brad set off along the route on 9 March.(See XCmag’s introduction to it here)
Starting from Dharamshala in northwest India, Brad and his team are making their way [...]

Not all of us have the time, money or (let’s be honest) the cojones for extreme adventures, like paragliding the entirety of the Himalayan mountain range. Thanks to modern technology though, we can all live vicariously through the Himalayan Odyssey Team’s trip of just that nature, as we sit comfortably in our cubicles.
The group of [...]

While paragliding in the Himalayas is a fairly common trip for experienced fliers, no team has gone all the way through Nepal. These guys are seasoned fliers and between them they have of experience flying all over the world. But they’ve never tried anything like this before: hiking and flying more than 800 miles from Dharamsala to Sikkim, India.

after a long soak in the hot springs, high in the Himalayas, with an incredible star filled sky….the team flew off this morning. Conditions were not fantastic, infact BAD!!! So lets see. At least if all goes…mmmmmdown(!!!) Billing take off is on the route! Always tomorrow eh.

An extraordinary flying adventure, exploring the legends, myths and life of the remote Himalayas and their inhabitants captured on photos and movie.