Videos tagged with "edmund"

Lukla or Tenzing-Hillary Airport - Nearest airfield to Mt. Everest [01:10]
Construction and repair work happening at Lukla air strip in Nepal. Tractors, manual labourers (beldar and masons), trucks and cement work in progress. See a red and white wind sock flying in the wind... Tenzing-Hillary Airport, also known as Lukla Airport, is a small airport in the town of Lukla in Khumbu, Solukhumbu district, Sagarmatha zone, eastern Nepal. Lukla means place with many goats and sheep, however these days, one is not likely to see many roaming around. The airport is popular because Lukla is the place where most people start the climb to Mount Everest Base Camp. There are daily flights between Lukla and Kathmandu during daylight hours, in good weather. Although the flying distance is short, rain commonly occurs in Lukla while the sun is shining brightly in Kathmandu. High winds, cloud cover and changing visibility often mean flights can be delayed or the airport closed completely. The airport is contained within a chain link fence and patrolled by the Nepal armed police or civil police around the clock. Lukla Airport is the usual jumping off spot for those adventurers that are heading off to tackle Everest. The pilots flying into and out of Lukla are adventurers in their own right, for just landing and taking off out of this place! The airport's paved asphalt runway is only accessible to helicopters and small, fixed-wing, short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft, such as the De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter or Dornier Do 228. Tara Air also operates two ...
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THE CLASSIC EVEREST BASE CAMP TREK Dezember 2011 [12:50]
My way on the Mount Everest Base Camp Trek. I've been 20 days in Nepal and 13 days on the EBC-Trek. It's really an amazing mountain hike with awesome views, very nice people and great experiences!!! It's not too difficult, the only difficulty is to walk 4-9 hours in such a high altitude like you'll have it on the trek... but if you're motivated and you take your time (if you have it...) it's no problem!!! I didn't made it to the top of Kala Pattar and to the EBC. We had to walk after our timetable and I had no chance to recover when it got very exhausted. But that was the only problem with the booked and not individual organized tour, everything else was really perfect!!! If you have any questions feel free to contact me! Ps Diamox sucks, ginger and garlic rule ;-) Songs: 1. Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om - Mantra 2. Cobweb - Namaste
Tags: Nepal, Mount, Everest, Base, Camp, Trek, EBC, November, Dezember, 2011, Khumbu, Kathmandu, Pashupatinath, Temple, Bodnath, Stupa, Lukla, airport, airstrip, take, off, Dudh, Kosi, Edmund, Hillary, Step, Bridge, Monjo, Namche, Bazar, Thamo, Khumjung, Pangbo

BMM Against the Flow PROMO [01:30]
BMM Against the Flow PROMO
Tags: sir edmund hillary, river, Water, nepal, expedition

Lukla Airport [09:58]
Wikipedia schreibt über den Airport „LUKLA" Die Start- und Landebahn wurde 1964 unter der Aufsicht von Sir Edmund Hillary von örtlichen Sherpas für 2650 US-Dollar erbaut. Erst im Jahr 2001 wurde die Schotterpiste asphaltiert, ein Abfertigungsgebäude und ein neuer Tower gebaut. Nach dem Tod von Edmund Hillary im Januar 2008 beschloss die nepalesische Regierung, den Flughafen nach Hillary und Tenzing Norgay künftig als Tenzing-Hillary Airport zu benennen.[1] Der Flug ersetzt eine einwöchige Anreise zu Fuß von Jiri aus, ansonsten kann die Khumbu-Region nur per Hubschrauber erreicht werden, da die Landepiste oberhalb von Namche Bazar nicht mehr mit Flugzeugen angeflogen wird. Der Flugplatz wird in Abhängigkeit von Wetter- und Sichtbedingungen mehrfach am Tag von Kathmandu aus bedient. Die 450 m (1476 ft) lange Landebahn hat eine Hangneigung von etwa 12% und kann nur bergwärts angeflogen werden. Das Ende der Startbahn bricht abrupt etwa 600 m tief zum Dudh Kosi ab, das andere Ende endet in einer Mauer, die in den steil ansteigenden Berg übergeht, was Starts und Landungen auf diesem Altiport zu einem atemberaubenden Erlebnis und den Flugplatz zu einem der weltweit gefährlichsten Plätze macht. Lukla ist der meistfrequentierte Inlandsflughafen in Nepal und fertigt in der Hochsaison etwa 50 Flüge täglich ab. Unfälle • 15. Oktober 1973: Eine De Havilland Canada DHC-6 „Twin Otter" der Royal Nepal Airlines wurde bei der Landung derart beschädigt, dass sie abgeschrieben werden musste ...
Tags: Lukla, Nepal, Sagarmatha-Nationalpark, Mount Everest, Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, Kathmandu, Twin Otter, De Havilland Canada, Donier 228, Royal Nepal Airlines, Landing, UNESCO Welterbe, Airplane, Tenzing-Hillary Airport, Airport, Agni Air, Songs, Gork

Jean-Paul explains Nepal and its mountains [02:27]
Jean-Paul Bell explains about the Roof of the World Tour.
Tags: Himalayas, Mountains, Geography, travel from Australia to Nepal, Kathmandu, Himalayan Trust, Sir Edmund Hillary, Adventure Learning.