December 30, 2008 Astrid Rao

Christmas Flying at Kamshet

As I mentioned on the face book group the conditions for the past week have fluctuated drastically from strong winds blowing all day to weak no lift conditions. I managed some long soaring flights lasting between 1 and 2.5 hours although the compression tried its best to keep me from taking off. Visiting pilots Carlo [...]

December 14, 2008 Astrid Rao

CEO’s take flight with Nirvana Adventures

Last weekend CNBC-TV18, ‘Business with Pleasure’, a show that features leaders of corporate India at their relaxed best joined hands with Nirvana Adventures to take TIML chief executive A.P. Parigi on a paragliding adventure. The site was Tower Hill Kamshet and the the focus was on achieving the dream of free flight. Mr Parigi and [...]

December 13, 2008 Astrid Rao

My first flight from the stunning Lake View site

The hills behind Native Place are an amazing place to walk about. Easy meandering paths through leafy arbors, interesting boulders, caves, streams, sun bleached grasses, stunning views of the lake below and the hills all around as well as the chance to walk about in solitude are some of the things that draw me up [...]

December 7, 2008 Astrid Rao

Grounded for the weekend

I spent the weekend in Mumbai and felt like my friend Paulo who went back to Italy after flying in India a while ago and messaged me saying his body was in in Italy and his heart was still in India. Well that is exactly how i felt this weekend. I spent thursday through sunday [...]

December 1, 2008 Astrid Rao

Life is uncertain – fly high!

As Dylan and I drove up from Mumbai on Friday afternoon a grey cloud hung over the city and followed us up the expressway all the way to Kamshet. It reflected the mood of the city hanging low and despondent over us. The newspaper we were reading did nothing to cheer us and I put [...]