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| Getting of the plane at Doha. | Doha Airport | Clear blue skies everywhere. | First sight of the Himalayas | Getting closer |
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| Crossing the foothills | Kathmandu airport and the mountains in the distance. | Airplane to Pokhara, hope we get a window seat. | Everyone gets a window seat. | Closer still |
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| Coming in low over Pokhara. | The Blue Heaven Hotel | Even the front door is a masterpiece. | Bedrooms, clean and comfortable with sat TV | The local chess club |
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| The view from Sunrise take off. | Sunrise take off | Getting ready for take off. | Waiting for the right moment. |
Off the tandem goes. |
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| And another one. | The hunt for thermals begins | Looking back | Pokhara from above the lake. | The landing field. Mia Devi is down there somewhere. |
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| Slow but sure. | Almost there. Mia Devi is the orange building. | The ruynway (road) from the ground | Coming in to land. | Tandems coming in. |
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| Minding obstacles on the runway, road. | The view from Mia Devi's Patio | The kids race to repack. | Ajit becomes our chief Packer. | For 20 Rupees they pack them better than we can. |
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| Sorting the lines before repacking. | Ajit at work. | They even fan fold advance wings without being told. | End of the first day with a drink at Busy Bee's. | The road down to breakfast. |
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| Choosing our table at Mike's. | The view at breakfast. | God this is hard work. | I wish I was back in the UK in December. | Kids still have to go to school. |
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| The 100 yards to 'Blue Sky' take off. | Nearly there. | Looking out. | And again. | In the thermal, looking back to take off. |
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| The take off is on the right of the mountain in the foreground. | With himalayas in the back ground. | Flying out to the lake and "The Box" | Pokhara from 3,000 ft above the lake. | Michelle does a 50% deflation. |
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| James and another 50% deflation. | James about to stall. | Edi settling the glider down before back flying. | James flying backwards. | A little dive after the stall. |
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| One of Edi's dry landings | Michelle going into the lake. | Michelle coming out of the Lake. | Part of the SIV course is to pull the reserve. | Michelle back into the lake |
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| Edi's turn to pull the reserve. | Edi Back in the lake again. | Edi and James being recued. | David Arufat debriefing Edi. | Drying out the gear. |
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| The view from left to right from the Temple of World Peace | Another breakfast. | |||
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| The Temple for World Peace | The steps of the Temple | The Buda | One of the 'Parahawking' hawks | Another view from Mia Devi's patio. |
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| Sunrise teaching take off. | The view from the take off. | Waiting for the thermals. | Some great photo's of James flying. | |
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| More great photo's of James | ||||
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| More great photo's of James | ||||
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| Coming in to land. | Some fantastic flowers. No idea what they are but the colours were son intense. | |||
| For more itemised details on dates, flights and avilability see top of page. | ||||
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