Posts Tagged ‘pokhara’

hi all,
and thanks for all the comments. It s very encouraging.
i cannot answer to all of you, but i read everything and it s great,it makes my heart warm in this rainy south of france.
(even snow today at 700 m, much lower than Himalayas)
I m working just now on a google earth map with [...]

[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 [...]

Latest news from Graham in Nepal….
Hey Lynn
From the Sat phone (Brad) “I am sampling the roksi in Eastern Nepal J. I have theory for local weather which compresses and accelerates wind in this valley. Solution is to walk or get.. ***some text missing***.
What is the solution Brad?
Spoke to Antoine yesterday, he had a [...]

Things are looking up! No one’s been climbing high or easily, but
there are reports of thermals, and cumulus to the north. We’re going
to be in position to fly east tomorrow.

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 [...]

Yip..looks like it…..The Machapuchre dessert here at the Olive Cafe is OVER!!!!
Weather conditions are not fantastic, however, changing.
Brad, Eric and Antoine sit here at the table looking at satalite maps and discuss….They agree on leaving in the morning! If they can take-off from Sarangkot and get a lift….it’s all good, but, if not, and they [...]

greetings from Bir Billing…. i am back – close to where we started from… the conditions here r good.. Austrian Paul made a 150 km return flight at the frontrange reaching 4800 mt… some pilots went to the back mountains flying over 5300 mt… there are only a few pilots this spring season …. i [...]

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 [...]

What a day here in Pokhara!! I do not think i have ever seen hail stones that size in my life, they where like squash balls!!!
A message came from Brad came this morning asking for some weather news…quote “can any weather gurus out there comment on the W NW winds we are experiencing the last [...]

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 [...]