Leben Was Geht

Gaspadar!
This sommer i did a mountain expedtion in china to the mustagh ata (7546m) with ruefa bergreisen.
my plan was to go up by skies to the summit and fly down with the speedglider.
the chances were about 30% to fly down from the top. nevertheless i wanted to try this action.
i got a new glider from swing – the hybrid sport 17.
so we started at 27th of july in munich and flew over moscow to bishkek in kirgisia.
our guide alex – we called him “manager” from the mountain agency tien shan travel picked us up at the airport on the morning and we drove directly to naryn which is a city on the silk road. on the next day we drove to the touragat pass (3752m) and entered china after many checkpoints (in kirgisa we had 4 to manage or wait….)
at the chinese boarder we had to carry all our luggage some meters over the border line to the already waiting truck.
fortunately the streets in china were better then in kirgisia so we had a more or nice time on the road with our new guide (mr. kong) from the mountain agency in kashgar.
after a x-ray session from the whole luggage at the chinese checkpoint we arrived at half past 7 in kashgar at our hotel. first we had to carry up our luggage to the room, but then we were happy to enjoy our first dinner at the chinese restaurant. a strange thing was, that it is normal too bring the drinks from the shops to the restaurant…. good idea – isn’t it?
we did nice and hot sight seeing in kashgar city and bought the rest for the expedition.
on saturday night suddenly there drove amor-cased water gun cars across the streets. on the morning we heard that there were some terror attacks from the uygur people with 8 murdered people. thats an ethnic minority group here. here in xinjiang region there are about 50 minority groups. you can imagine the different culture what you can see here. some days later there was an terror attack in kashgar with 14 murdered people. crazy. nobody recognised here in europe.
nevertheless we reached on the karakorum highway after a long travel the village subashi (3726m). at the evening we could see the massive mountain mustagh ata.
here we are…..
we had a nice dinner outside and enjoyed the great energy from the mountain. the night we slept in a yurt which was great and warm with our sleeping bags.
on tuesday the 1st of august the camels get packed and after breakfast we hiked in 4 hours to our basecamp (4530m). during the day the temperature rise up to 25°C. what a hot area here. but when clouds has covered the sky the temperature falled down rapidly…..
next stories coming soon – now its weekend.

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Hi extreme summer chillers!
On Wednesday 24.7.2011 i start an Expedition to the Mustagh Ata (7546m) in China.
I fly to Bishkek in Kirgisia and we’ll drive on the silk road to china.
Then we do some walking with the camels to the base camp.
We have 3 weeks for climbing to the the summit with our skis.
Hopefully the wind is less and it will come from the right side then i will launch my new speed flyer. The new Hybrid Sport from Swing with 17m².
Have a look at the great line there! yihaaaaaaa

Actual tracking from Bernhard to the summit of Mustagh Ata.

Thanks a lot to my sponsors:

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Hi water addicted extreme sports men and women!
This day aichi, christoph, gerald , marlene and me we drove to weissenbach for doing a canyoning tour at this sunny and hot day!
first we had to walk about 1hr and 270 metres of altitude to the start of the canyoning tour.
the thin 3mm wet suit was not the best choice, because the deep canyon was bloody cold. we could find the sunrays only sometimes. brrr.
nevertheless we had a lot of fun.
thx for this great tour!
look for some more pictures at http://unterwasserfoto.at/
have a nice week
bernhard

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Hi extreme hunter disputants!
Last Saturday the summit surfers patrick and me we drove to hinterstoder for speedflying two times the kleiner priel.
what a big day with our new hawai shirts;)
have fun and enjoy the rides.
cya bernhard

hi dolomiten man wanna be’s 😉
yesterday patrick and me we hiked to the spitzkofel at 2717m in lienz.
this is the running route for the red bull dolomiten mann to the kuhbodentörl. the best time is about 1:23.
we needed for our first time with the weight of our speedgliders 3:00. so there is some difference to the best 😉
but we very lucky to be at the mountain top of the spitzkofel at about 5pm without any rain. there was an amazing view.
unfortunately there was northernly wind so we had to go downwards to the beginning of the fixed iron rope route. there we found a good starting place for our speedglider which is the starting place for the paragliders at the redbull dolomiten mann.
with our swing spitfire 11m² we fly downwards in really short time with a lot of fun and great impressions.
thx for this great mountain tour.
cya on the mountains
bernhard

hi extreme weekenders!
this weekend summitsurfer patrick and me we drove to lienz for testing the new speedglider from swing, the hybrid sport 15 and 17.
thats a really great glider for beginners who want to get into the speedflying feeling.
now i have to decided what size i ‘ll take to my expedition to the mustagh ata in july.
thx to the touch heaven paraglider club.
cya the next time at zettersfeld which we couldn’t fly because of the northern foen!

hi extreme sundowners!
yesterday martin and me we drove to spital and hiked up to the grosser pyhrgas.
it was the longest day for thhis year. we reached the mountain top at 8pm.
the amazing light was so beautiful!
have a look at the pictures
you can imagine that our lunch was great too.
at 9pm we started our gliders and flew downwards to our landing zone.
thx for this really afterwork tour.
cya bernhard

Hi extremely addicted Double Speedflyers!
On Saturday Summit Surfer Patrick, Martin and Bernhard hiked up to the Kleiner Priel in Hinterstoder.
On the Mountain top there was about 50km/h southerly wind.
but it was to start with the cobra technique.
the flight was more or less a safety flight because of the fön conditions
then we hiked up a second time, and this flight was with less wind and we had a lot of fun with relative flying and rolling all the time.
thx for this great day!
cya bernhard

Hi extreme hot day walk and fly guys!
This day i walked up with florian from the gasthaus klausriegler to the schobersteinhaus. we did there some doping with cider and at half past 11 we started our paraglider and we found nice uplift winds. yessa.
my maximum altitude height level was 1966m then i decided to fly to losenstein to my home for lunch. it was not a big deal because of such good thermal winds. great.
thx for this great flight.
cya on the mountains
bernhard

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This Day we went Speedflying to the Grosser Pyhrgas in Spital.
there was a lot of new snow above 1700metres of altitude.
at the first flight i had north westerly wind at about 40km/h.
at the second walk i met 2 nice mountaineering girls with running shoes walking the hofersteig in the snow from freistadt. big respekt!!
first i thought 2 times must be enough, but i got a sms from patrick they wanted to do a flight together with me. so i flew down to the Pyhrgassattel and hiked up with the other summitsurfers a 3rd time to the summit. oh you can imagine my tired tighs…
martin flew with his parachute to spital and patrick and me we flew with our speedglider the hasenbergrinne downwards as fast as possible 😉
what a great flight together.
so speedflying alone makes half as much fun and togehter is the ulitimate experience.
have fun together and enjoy your life.
bernhard