A bit of a classic, but I found this tonight while researching the Biman Enclosed trike for the forum question du' jour. It was the 2004 attempt to tow a hanglider behind a microlight trike to 30,000 feet over Mt. Everest. Just your usual "Sunday Flight" right?
From the website:
Crazy? Can this be possible? Two people thought it was perfectly possible, and did it on May 24 2004. Despite some very marginal weather conditions and some last minute technical glitches the hang glider was towed to a point very close to the summit. The microlight pilot exchanged waves with a group of climbers who were standing on the summit as he flew over Everest!
British Microlight pilot Richard Meredith-Hardy and Italian hang-glider pilot Angelo D’Arrigo started preparing for this project in 2002. It was a highly technical exercise requiring the development of a lot of specialist equipment to cope with the extreme conditions. Very high takeoffs, (12,200 ft), temperatures of minus 25° C at altitudes where without oxygen the normal ‘time of useful consciousness’ is less than one minute.
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