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Namaste Bondu

Thanks, glad You are enjoying.......................more comin' soon, just need more hours in a day :cool:

Vertical Freedom

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VNMA 11,115' @ -14˚C Manang Valley, dumping fuel for the flight home after rescue, Nepal
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...ors99/AJI1.jpg

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'Thorang Phedi' 15,157' @ -20˚C rescue flight, Manang Valley, Nepal
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...ors99/AJI2.jpg

Certainly qualifies for "Mountain Time" on the resume.

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'Charikot' 6,496' enroute @ 9,000' to VNLK from VNKT Nepal :eek:
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...P1040943-1.jpg

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‎'Humkhola' 10,551' @ +5℃ Dam recce, Jomsom region, Nepal

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...P1050144-1.jpg

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‎'Humkhola' 10,551' @ +5℃ Dam recce, Jomsom region, Nepal :cool:



http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...P1050147-3.jpg

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office views to Gokyo valley, scenes of frozen Tarns (glacial lake) 22,500' @ -30℃, 'Sagar Matha Ji' (Everest top right), Sulo Khumbu, Nepal
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...9/P1040877.jpg

Is the traffic that bad in Nepal that you have to fit a bumber bar on the front... :}

Seriously though, what's it for?
The mirror bars I've had on my squirrels for slinging were quite different, thus the question....

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Sulo Khumbu region, another day gettin' some fresh air in the office, Nepal
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...P1040945-1.jpg

Namaste Flyting

Yep the frame is for the mirror when we are slinging :ooh:

Happy Landings

VF

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'Kala Pathar' 17,373' @ -11℃ AS350B3+ ancient salt lake bed, now snow covered, below the majestic 'Sagar Matha ji' the 'Top of the World' Nepal

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...P1050069-1.jpg

for VF
 

VF, maybe a bit off thread .. but .. a mention of your flying conditions and more .. in this month's Readers Digest, Asian Edition (I couldn't find the Asian Link, so I added the UK link, same story .. )

Rescue at the roof of the world

and a shameless link to the photo there .. :E

http://www.readersdigest.co.uk/image...cle_rescue.jpg

It's about time Vertical Freedon had his own photo thread. The pics are awesome mate and I am seriously jealous.

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Namaste ecureilx & Evil Twin

Thanks i seen the article on the HCL, we do that in our Company when required. :ok:

Thanks for the compliments, not sure it warrant my own thread though :cool: will keep them pumping when time permits :O

Happy Landings

VF

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'Everest Panorama Hotel' 12,616' @ 5℃ B206BIII & AS350B3+, Sulo Khumbu, Nepal

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...P1050004-1.jpg

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...P1050008-1.jpg

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...P1050017-1.jpg

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'Dingboche' early morning rescue flight, 14,148' @ -18˚C, 4 x PAX, AS350B3+, Sulo Khumbu, Nepal
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...9/P1050062.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...9/P1050061.jpg

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Blah, yeach :mad: typical Mountain Rescue weather, :eek: no-one wants to be rescued in the sunshine??? :\ -18℃ Manang Valley, Nepal
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...9/P1050163.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...9/P1050177.jpg

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:{ washing day an amazingly clear day for Nepal :eek: rooftop views of the Mountains from my apartment in Kathmandu :D
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...9/P1050040.jpg

VF
 

@VF: Mate, your pictures are absolutely fantastic! and as expressed before I am very jealous! You do an awesome job! Well done.. Thanks for the pictures too I really enjoy seeing them..

I do have a couple of silly questions,
1. At the heights you work at, are there Oxygen requirements, issues?
2. You pick up 5/6 people at those high altitudes, how much fuel do you carry?
3. The performance of your helicopters seems amazing, I am amazed it picks up all those people at that height, do you ever just run out of power?

I would really like to see some pictures of Everest you have taken, what's the highest you have been up too?

I was at 12,000' and found that bloody spooky!!
Please keep the pics coming..
Fly safe!
D