About a month ago Sebastian Kawa and his Everest Gliding team returned to Pokhara’s airfield afoot the Himalayas. While the Polish expedition took a Christmas break in their home country the ASH 25 Mi had spent the shortest days of the winter in Nepal. Sebastian Kawa is now busy checking out the soaring conditions around…
Thanks to reader John Koch for recommending this video. Released on February 18th, it features spectacular videos of world champion Sebastian Kawa soaring an ASH-25Mi over the Himalayas.
A few days ago, probably while in the United States Gordon and Hugh were preparing for their next long downwind dash from Minden, I received an e-mail note from Poland: The Kawa-Team is busy preparing their next trip to the Himalayas where in November 2013 they had fought the elements to be the first sailplane…
On February 1st Klaus Ohlmann reported the first solo soaring flight above Mount Everest. In an e-mail that was quickly distributed around the world he explains: “In a measurement flight near Lukla I stopped the motor. Nearly no wind below 6000 m, difficult thermals. Between Pumori and the entrance of the Khumbu Glacier smooth lift…
Klaus Ohlmann is back in the Himalayas: On January 28th 2014 he and his copilot Jona Keimer found breezy but perfect conditions to cruise along the highest mountain on Earth. Using wave and ridge lift the Stemme S 10 climbed up to 29,000 feet msl and soared into the heart of the Himalayas. Equipped with…
On November 1st, Klaus Ohlmann arrived in Kathmandu (Nepal) after travelling all the way from Germany in a Stemme S10, D-KKOP. His goal is to do research flights in the Earth’s highest mountain range – the Himalayas. The Mountain Wave Project (MWP) had everything well prepared, but bureaucratic issues stopped Klaus from travelling on to…
Just four days ago, on October 13th, Klaus Ohlmann and copilot Anssi Soila took off in a well prepared Stemme from Strausberg’s airfield close to Berlin. They are heading for the Himalayas. Their first leg took them southwards to the Alps. The project called “Nepal – Greenflight-e-motion” is organised by the Mountain Wave Project, which…
