Adventure, Travel, Aviation
It’s a beautiful day, if not an odd one, in Sajama village. We’ve been snowed in for over a day in what I’m told is highly unusual weather here. The snowfield usually doesn’t start until after high camp (5,700m) but here it is in the village (4,200m). Unfortunately, all of this means we’ve missed the […]
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Heavy snowfall conditions on the summit forced us to delay climbing Acotango this morning. We were to climb Acotango as part of the acclimatization process before attempting Sajama over the next three days. We’re in a holding pattern until our guide decides the best course of action.
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The Tayka Desert Hotel (Tayka Hotel del Desierto), in the Bolivian Cordillera, is at an elevation of about 4,550m or about 15,000 ft. The Guinness Book of World Records and a number of online articles have cited the Everest View Hotel in Nepal, at about 13,000 ft, as the highest hotel in the world. The […]
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The Bell 206B JetRanger III with the Zimbabwe registration “Z-HOT”, which took me on an overflight of Victoria Falls in 2011, crashed last year in unknown conditions. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=199175
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Approaching Puerto Jimenez (PJM), on Costa Rica’s remote Osa Peninsula. Sansa Airlines Cessna 208B Grand Caravan.
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A few weeks ago, the Costa Rican airline Nature Air, had a well-publicized crash that killed 12 people.
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