Videos tagged with "stol"

A Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) in Pokhara, Nepal (Full HD Video) [07:16]
A full HD movie of flood that hit Pokhara on May 05, 2012. This devastating GLOF came in the morning in Pokhara at around 8:30 AM and remained until 12:45 PM. This destructive flood has killed many people and affected hundred plus people.
Tags: GLOF, flood, pokhara, climate change, Hemja, Amrit Banstola, glacier lake, outburst flood, seti river, gandaki, Nepal

Lukla Airport ... Gateway to Everest [01:15]
Tenzing-Hillary Airport, also known as Luka Airport is the gateway to the Everest region, Solukhumbu, Nepal. Gateway to Everest, the world's highest mountain and many other Himalayas was rates featured in a program titled Most Extreme Airports broadcasted in The History Channel in 2010. The airport is where you start your once in a life time trek to Everest Base Camp or many more climbs to follow. The airport is located at an elevation of 9100 feet (2800m) with a single runway of 1500 feet (460m) with a gradient of 12%. The airport's paved asphalt runway is only accessible to helicopters and small, fixed-wing-takeoff-and-landing aircrafts.
Tags: Nepal, Everest, Mt. Everest, Airport, Mount Everest (Mountain), Mountains, Sagarmatha, Tenzing Hillary Airport, STOL Airport, STOL landing, Amazing Airports, Amazing Landings, Extreme Airports, Dangerous Airports, Dangerous Landing, Airplane

The Everest Podcast - Episode 11: "Mischief in the World's Highest Monastery" [20:29]
Join Erick as he broadcasts "live" from his trek to Advanced Base Camp 3 of Mount Everest. This video is built around an audio podcast Erick recorded each day along his journey from Kathmandu, Nepal, through Tibet, and then along the Mount Everest North Col, as he ascended the mountain's North Face. The photos you see were taken by Erick during the trek. In this episode: Erick arrives at Rongphu, home to the highest monastery in the world, as well as the last permanent shelter before Erick beings the actual Everest trek tomorrow. While visiting the Rongphu Monastery, Erick pegs a monk in the back of the head with a piece of bread, and has his shoes stolen by another monk
Tags: mount, everest, mountains, nepal, tibet, trekking, adventure, mountain, climbing, hiking, travel, visiglow, himalaya, himalayan, sherpa, base, camp, trek, shangri, la, Mount Everest (Mountain), Sherpa People (Ethnicity), China

Landing at Lukla, Nepal airport [04:50]
Lukla Airport (IATA: LUA, ICAO: VNLK) is a small airport in the Town of Lukla in Khumbu, eastern Nepal. In January 2008, the government of Nepal announced that the airport would be renamed in honor of Sir Edmund Hillary[1]and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Sir Edmund Hillary died on January 11, 2008. Tenzing Norgay died in 1986. The airport is now officially named Tenzing-Hillary Airport (LUA|VNLK)[2] Runway characteristics include 527m of bitumen runway. The width is 20m and the runway incline is a staggering 12%. The apron has 4 stands and there is one heli-pad located 150m below the TWR (air traffic control tower). No landing aids are available and Air Traffic Service is limited to AFIS (Aerodrome Flight Information Service) only. The airport is quite popular as Lukla is the place where most people start their trek to climb Mount Everest. There are frequent daily flights (ie no night service) between Lukla and Kathmandu, weather permitting. Although the flying distance is short, it can easily be raining in Lukla while the sun is shining brightly in Kathmandu, or vice versa. The airport's siren blasts the mountain air to inform personnel of incoming aircraft. The paved tarmac is only accessible to helicopters and small fixed wing short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft such as Twin Otters or Dornier Do 228. There is about a 700-metre (2000 ft) angled drop at the end of the runway to the valley below.
Tags: Nepal trekking, airports, landing, STOL

NEPAL video di Pistolozzi Marco con Avventure nel Mondo.mpg [14:31]
Il viaggio in Nepal effettuato a Marzo 2010 si è svolto in due fasi con la visita alle antiche capitali della valle di Kathmandu ed un trekking di cinque giorni sul percorso delle cime Himalaiane dell' Annapurna. Il trekking bellissimo attraverso meravigliose foreste di rododendri in fiore.
Tags: Kathmandu, Annapurna, Pistolozzi Marco, Nepal