Posts Tagged ‘Lynn Jones’

We have had some great times up the Nepali mountains – mainly camping between 3000 & 3500 mt – to be able to find firewood and snow at the same time… melting lots of snow to stock up the drinking-water and cook soup with Dilip’s powder and soaked sojaballs – sometimes even we made [...]

Just received this short message via satellite from the team….
“Best dhal bhat ever in Dhorpatan, resupplied with food, and head back to the mountains to wait good conditions to take-off in morning”.
They sound happy!!
Here, Mike arrived in great spirits this afternoon after a mammoth 2 day non-stop walk/bus trip!
We hung out on the balcony this [...]

Day 12 was gr8 for all pilots…quite a distance covered. Though they all landed far away (approx 10 kms) from each other…they were all pretty close to their target.
Lynn was waiting for boys at Oaks Nature Camp, Patal Bhuvaneshwar accompanied by Shankar Singh.
Day 13 evening all pilots got together and now heading for Nepal. The [...]

yyyesss !!! we can. be back on the civilization where networks are everywhere in the air. for a short time, just enough to jump a river, get a stamp and dive again in this bivi flight routine that i appreciate so much. day after day, we made our way through the giants, sometimes [...]

just ready to leave for the rdv with the team in Pithoragarh, night train and a lift from the newspaper delivery man there-after. Managed to speak to Antoine this morning who was super happy! They had camped out at 3000 mtrs plus where they were melting ice for water and cooking. It was totally silent [...]