Friday, 1 October 2010

John Silvester aka The Birdman

If you've been at any of the Mountain film festivals over the last 18 months you'll probabaly will have seen the amazing Al Hughes film "The Birdman of the Karakorum" featuring John Silvester.

John has been using Mountain Equipment clothing on his Himalayan paragliding expeditions for years - as you can see in the below clip below from the film, where he's using our Classic synthetic Snowline Parka.


This weekend John sets off to India on his next adventure -

John - "We are going to go back in over the 4600m Thamsur pass and visit the remote village of Barabhangal, then hopefully continue through the 4800m Kalicho la into Kistwar and to Keylong (i flew here last year via Manali over the Rhotang pass...but this way will be much better!)....or, other wise continue to Padam!!!"


John will also be doing some guided trips while he's out in India more info on this here - http://www.flyskyhigh.net/ and http://www.himalayanskysafaris.com/

On this trip John is going to using some of our New Winter'10 Synthetic products and putting them to the test -

Citadel Jacket
Fitzroy Pant
Fitzroy Mitt

Check back here soon for pictures and John's report