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Perlan Project Inc. is a not-for-profit aeronautical exploration and atmospheric science research organization that utilizes sailplanes (gliders) designed to fly at extremely high altitudes. On 29 August 2006 Steve Fossett and Einar Enevoldson , the pilots of Perlan Mission I, broke the existing altitude record for gliders by soaring up to ...
The Sonoma ZR2 was known as ZR2 High-Rider. In 1996 it was expanded to the two-door Chevrolet Blazer and later offered on the Chevrolet Tracker. The ZR2 package was gradually phased out with the S-Series pickup and SUV lines. However, it has made a comeback as an option on the 2017 Chevrolet Colorado.
K2, at 8,611 metres (28,251 ft) above sea level, is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest at 8,849 metres (29,032 ft). [5] It lies in the Karakoram range, partially in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-administered Kashmir and partially in the China-administered Trans-Karakoram Tract in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang.
The original funding for the Perlan Project was provided by Steve Fossett and he flew the Perlan 1, along with test pilot Einar Enevoldson to a glider altitude record of 50,761 ft (15 km) in the mountain waves of El Calafate, Argentina on 30 August 2006. Fossett was killed in a light aircraft crash a year later and the project floundered ...
Martyn Ashton (born 2 December 1974) [1] is a former British and World Champion mountain bike trials rider, stunt rider and team manager. [2] He had been riding professional trials since 1993, [3] and has been described as a mountain biking legend, [4] [5] and credited with turning trials riding into one of the fast-growing areas of the sport of mountain biking. [6]
4 Trials Riders. 5 Dirt Jumpers/ Freeriders. 6 Top mountain bike coaches. ... Wade Simmons (Rocky Mountain) Martin Söderström (Specialized/Red Bull) Kurt Sorge ...
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Mountain Ridge High School is a public high school ... Lacrosse won the 2017 Division II Boys State Title. ... (2002), motocross rider and extreme sports athlete; ...