Sorry no news for a while, and now the news is bad. Day six was a real bummer. One of the Swiss super stars, Stefan Schmoker, crashed on the cliffs behind the 'Finger' shortly after the start. I saw the whole thing from directly above and it was brutal. I was flying around the crash site with Helmut Eicholzer. Heli spiralled down and some how managed to land unscathed between the trees on a rock the size of a car on the cliff. HUGE respect to him! The rest of us lesser mortals cleared the area after the organisers came on the radio and asked everyone not involved to move off.
Stefan died after a couple of hours despite the desperate efforts of Heli to save his life.
Today was a rest day.
I will write some more about the flying when I feel inspired again. Sorry folks.
Have a look at Nevil's Valle movie on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJWqLD64zt0&feature=channel_page
We are in 21st position after 6 tasks
Nevil 58th
Andre 62nd
Henry 89th
Desi 144th
1 comment:
Not good. Thinking of you.
Love, Desi xxx
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