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Speedfly in thin air. What does this mean? "Basically you go faster – a lot faster," Mal Haskins told ExplorersWeb.
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April 22 was set as the cut-off date for all ski expeditions to the Geographic North Pole. Barneo staff flew the last scientists and Last Degree skiers back to Longyearbyen and has started to dismantle the camp.
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She-gliders are rare species but here's one: Swiss born Geraldine Fasnacht flies down mountains on her snowboard or in wingsuit.
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One couldn't fly, the other didn't climb: it was stealth, it was shoestring, it was crazy, but they did it. Dark horses Babu Sunuwar, 28, and Lakpa Tshering Sherpa, 35, summited Everest on May 21st and broke the World Record of Altitude in Paragliding.
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ICON reports it had a record year at the EAA AirVenture, taking deposits for an unprecedented 143 aircraft. The prototype aircraft made its first flight with the new spin-resistant wing design and is nearing the end of the aerodynamic refinement portion of the flight test program.
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(Newsdesk) Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) -- Nineteen people aboard a small plane were killed Sunday when it crashed while trying to land at the airport in Kathmandu, police in Nepal said.Among the occupants onboard were two Americans, officials said.The Beechcraft plane was returning from a sightseeing tour when it
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"Perhaps you should look into this." Last spring, a reader from Finland directed ExplorersWeb to posts on Lonely Planet stating that Everest trekking guides get a commission from helicopter operators to push rescue jobs their way. We checked in with Italian climber and Fishtail rescuer Simone Moro.
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Thinking of "Touching The Void" Jeong-Heon Park lost his fingers to frostbite when saving his partner Gang-Sik Choi from a deep crevasse. Switching focus, in the next six months Park will paraglide the Himalayas using hot air balloon to reach altitudes up to 7000 meters.
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A chartered First Air 737 passenger jet crashed Saturday near Resolute Bay, killing 12 people and injuring three. The flight was not connected to military activities in the area and seems to have carried staff and workers related to South Camp Inn.
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Irish Ger McDonnell died 2 August and last week fellow Irish Adventure based film makers achieved a probable new world record of filming from a helicopter on K2 for the final sequence of The Summit - a film about the 2008 K2 disaster.
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Paragliding World Cup boss Xavier Murillo went missing while paragliding in Peru on Friday 1 July. He hasn't been seen since and an extensive search is ongoing.The Paragliding World Cup Association (PWCA) is appealing for donations to help fund the aerial search.
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The new Sport Pilot License is cheaper and faster. With a mission "to bring the fun and adventure back to flying," ICON says it has closed a $25 million round of venture financing. With that, full-scale manufacturing of the sport plane can begin.
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Fishtail Air stated in a press release today that the company retrieved the body of Japanese woman hiker Masue Yoshida, 63, who was killed in an avalanche at Naya Kanga peak 5844m, 30 kms north of Kathmandu. The operation was carried out from an altitude of 18000ft.
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Recently in Pakistan he bagged yet another virgin winter 8000er after which he rushed to Nepal to save everyone else. This weekend Moro has been busy. The remains of a Sherpa were recovered on Manaslu but an empty tent on Thulagi remains a riddle.
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One Sherpa and one French climbers were airlifted with a sling operation from Manaslu on Friday. A search for more mountaineers from the team is planned for tomorrow.
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