Posts Tagged ‘Oriol Fernandez’

Just off the phone with Brad…great! It’s the first time in weeks i have managed to chat thru mobile telephone.
He is well and tired, nevertheless, happy to have survived the HO expedition!!!! Eric too!
They are not together, though hope to be later this evening. Brad was trying to explain where on the telephone, but with [...]

Oriol mailed me this morning asking me to post this…..
“At last I´m in Barcelona. After some days traveling from Pokhara I´ve arrived at home. It have been to many hours to think about ou himalayan odyssey and I´m very happy to have had the oportunity to participate in it. I want to say [...]

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 [...]

Ok, so the team are 100kms from Pokhara…..mmmm…with great weather conditions and even better piloting skills they may manage to arrive today!!! Graham at Frontier Paragliding wants to organise a band to play some local tunes for the landing!!!! That could be a lot of fun! Lets see, track throughout the day and by 15:00hrs [...]

This was the best day so far in Nepal. Tracks show 90+ kms done and after almost 4 hrs of flying Brad, Mike, Antoine and Eric landed in an unknown location at 3400mt somewhere in Bheri Zone of Western Central Nepal.
Oriol could not keep up with the team and landed way behind lower at around [...]

A good flying day for the team, just Oriol landed low “big walk tomorrow” The others top landed high, close by to one another.
If they continue with this pace and have good conditions, perhaps they arrive here in Pokhara in 2-3 days…Time for pasta, cheese and red wine!!!!!
Sunset was bliss. xL

Last night Brad contacted Manoj on phone to update his status and also to know about others. For second consecutive day Brad was going to spend a night all alone far away from rest of the team…scary for some of us…but somewhat normal for Mr Brad Sander.
Today morning at around 10:30 the computer screen started [...]

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 [...]

I can’t explain the coincidence and interesting outcomes of this trip so far. I am sitting in a friends house (Dr. Gunnu Pathak) drinking a tea and updating my blog… I woke up this morning under my glider covered frost camped out with 4 amazing friends on a remote mountain top at 3400 meters.  To [...]