“Mission Everest” Expedition 2007 Sponsored by GKN Plc

In May 2007 a team of 3 Parajet pilots led by world renowned explorer and adventurer Bear Grylls flew across the Himalayas and over the summit of Mount Everest at 35,000 ft. Read the story of this flight here.

Also see more on the team's website : http://www.gknmissioneverest.com/missioneverest/

Parajet have developed a highly specialised, supercharged and fuel injected rotary engine. Click here to see the story of the Engine development for this flight.

Day 1   9th May

"We arrived at Syangboche a small airstrip around 10,000ft up in the Kumbu Valley 20 miles or so from Everest. This was as high as we could go by chopper, being dropped any higher meant risking altitude sickness so the plan was to walk from here up to our base camp. The helicopter then flew on with all the equipment further up into the mountains where it was to drop off all our equipment with our porters in the village of Pheriche. Although flying helicopters into this National park is normally forbidden, except in emergencies, we were given special permission by the Nepalese CAA to drop our equipment as near to our base camp site as possible. ........."

Click Here to read the complete Diary of Gilo Cardozo and Bear Grylls' Everest flight with Parajet Paramotors. (PDF format - Will open in a New Window)