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Asia’s Leading Independent Inbound Travel Operators Join Forces to Create a Powerful Marketing Alliance
Bangkok, Thailand (June 25, 2009): Asian Connections, a powerful new marketing alliance of Asia’s best independent inbound travel operators, was launched today in Bangkok, Thailand.The marketing alliance sees the collaboration of eight travel partners covering 14 key destinations throughout Southeast Asia [...]
Tharpu Chuli Trekking Adventure: James Ward
James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe’s JCP representative. In his bio it is mentioned, “much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys”. Perhaps it was his love for climbing that drew [...]
“That we have returned safely is the most important thing!” - Oscar Cadiach
Oscar Cadiach Puig returned safely to Kathmandu after being rescued from the Kanchenjunga base camp by Fishtail Air’s helicopter. He was caught after a failed summit attempt in C3 by a storm last week. He needed two days to descend - a Sherpa [...]
CAVAPLAND Kanchenjunga (8586m) Expedition 2009
Everest may be the tallest peak in the world but it is not a difficult peak to climb, so say some seasoned climbers. There are peaks less taller than Everest which are more technical and difficult to scale. The members of the CAVAPLAND Kanchenjunga Expedition team found Kanchenjunga one of [...]
“Climbing Lhakpa Ri was a special experience…” - Jürg Merz
A visibly elated Jürg Merz , climber from Switzerland who recently summitted Lhakpa Ri, shared his experience with Explore Himalaya on 31st May. As this was Jürg’s first Himalayan experience , he seemed doubly pleased to have visited and added the ‘first’ Himalayan peak to his [...]
Face to Face with Kinga Baranowska: The first Polish woman to climb Kanchenjunga(8,586m)
Climbing with CAVAPLAND Kanchenjunga (8,586m) Expedition team ( logistics organized by Explore Himalaya), Kinga Baranowska became the first Polish woman climber to reach the summit of Kanchenjunjunga on 18th May.EH met up with Kinga on the eve of her departure for a short [...]
Everest summit by Altitude Junkies
We have just recieved information that four members and five sherpas have successfully reached the summit of Everest.Phil Crampton(UK/USA) summitted yesterday (19th May) while three members-1. Charles Scott Woolums (USA), 2. Brian Russell Strange (USA) and 3. John Robert Strange(USA)and five sherpas - Pemba Sherpa, Jangbu Sherpa,Da Ongchu Sherpa ,Namgyal Sherpa [...]
We have received information from the base camp that three members of the CAVAPLAND Kanchenjunga Expedition led by Oscar Cadiach Puig have successfully reached the summit of Kanchenjunga. Juan Jose Garra Lorenzo (Spain) and Kinga Baranowska (Poland) summitted yesterday (18th May), while Alberto Cerain (Spain) summitted today(19th May), a few hours ago. Kinga became the [...]
In the month of April , Fishtail Air operated 99 flights : 22 by “BELL 206 BIII” helicopter, 54 by Equiriel “AS350B” helicopter,and 23 by Equiriel “AS350B2″ helicopter.
The highest number of flights were to Lukla/ EBC area, with a total of 29 flights carried out.
(Data : Fishtail Air Pvt Ltd)
Fishtail Air helicopter’s charter operation [...]
Explore Himalaya attended the Great Indian Travel Bazaar 2009 held in Jaipur, India from 19th - 21st April. The international tourism conference and exhibition was organized by the Department of Tourism, Government of Rajasthan and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). The event saw the participation of around 175 foreign tour operators [...]