[Narrated] A tale of 8 fourteeners - my longest and highest flight 

Glad it was enjoyable to watch. Feedback provides motivation to make more and improve. Hanggliding and other forms of gliding are an unparalleled experience that everyone must try at least once!

Thanks a lot Steve!

Thanks, appreciate it. It takes a lot of editing work to put something like this together. Starting from a 5 hour long raw camera footage, it took me more than 40 hours to make this 15 min video. So I'm glad to know my viewers enjoying it.

That's clearly a very biased view 😜 Joking apart: I really enjoyed this one too !

We 🎉are enjoying

Thanks Nick! I am definitely getting more interested in history, geography and geology because of hang-gliding!

Happy to share my love of this one of kind magical valley.

Thanks! Feel free to share what you would like to see more (and less) of.

Thanks. Planning another epic flight for this year, hope to get all of it on 4K this time!

Thanks a lot!

Thanks Gary! I'm still not completely happy with the original camera video quality. I am hoping to upgrade to one of the latest cameras soon.

Haha thanks Lijian! You have to come with us in 2024! Fly whatever you are comfortable with. The new glider will be easy to land.

Looking forward to flying with you!

Thanks! Yes, I did have Oxygen, though the cylinder was drained within 3 hours since I stayed so high from the beginning.

Haha thanks! I make these videos to share the beauty of flying, not getting personal validation.

Yes, June-September is the best time to fly in the Owens Valley.

Thanks, what would be the best way to contact you? Our next trip would be Memorial Day weekend, assuming cooperative weather. I would love to share our flying stories and inspire a broader audience than my channel usually gets.

The landing options are generally always out in the Owens Valley. The terrain there is reasonably good, but landing in thermic conditions can be nasty.

Yeah, best to land after 5 pm and always study and watch the weather. There are enough landing options so long as you plan ahead. I could have scratched longer and bailed out on the shallow slopes by the dirt road, but I didn't want to risk getting stranded. You never know the conditions of these dirt roads. Some people don't mind risking a late retrieve and an angry driver 😅

I used my oxygen system this flight, but it was exhausted a bit before I reached the maximum altitude. It did keep me oxygenated for 3-4 hours though, which helped to stay warm and alert.

Thanks for the feedback! Music is one of the hardest things to choose to please a wide audience. For my narrated videos, I still prefer music to original video sound (wind noise) which can make it hard to hear the commentary and is also repetitive. I will work on improving the music editing in future videos. The crazy thing is that this flight was "easy" compared to the average, yet the Owens valley is considered one of the most dangerous places for hang-gliding due to the intimidating terrain and the possibility of very strong lift and turbulence. Having lots of experience flying here helps, because I'm no longer worried about landing anywhere (assuming safe weather conditions).

No camera that I know of. I used an external 5000 mAh battery

@@sohamhanggliding oh I was thinking that could be the case. Do you tape the power bank to the crossbar and plug a cable?

@@ericoschmittno, the camera is mounted to the sprog and the battery is taped to the sprog. I'm sure it alters the flight dynamics slightly but it's not noticeable