The air up here

Heli-skiing in Beautiful British Columbia

You know a sport is dangerous when...

Play safe.

Ashley Hughes enjoying an afternoon in the helicopter

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Cue the antagonist.

Magnum Jodanger. 


It just sounds so James Bond to me. Especially with the Scandenavian accent. 


As my life constantly feels like I am in the midst of an adventure novel and when the real life Magne Jordanger was introduced to me at a business lunch, his heavy accent made it sound like Magnum Jodanger.  


We then carried on the conversation about fisheries and fish farming but I was lost in swirling thought about the perfect villain name... even though his company was very pleasant. I seek inspiration from some of the strangest things. 

Hooray!

Lady Moura

Nasser Al-Rashid


http://www.rashidengineering.com/


This post is just acting as a reminder for me.

Quintessentially Emirati

Ashley Hughes and little falcon in the desert in UAE

If one is looking for a royal activity, observing or flying falcons in the Arabian desert is the sport.

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Bokonon ;)

"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"

LL Chondrites

Will update this post a little later. Just reserving platinum space.

Dunebunny.

Ashley Hughes kicking back, relaxing and enjoying the view.  Dune buggy racing in the desert is hard work.

Off of the record (part 3)

“To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else". Why would I let you, be the executive producer of me? So silly. Be yourself.

The third element.

The third element of the periodic table is Lithium.

I would like to introduce you to a place where heaven meets the earth - Salar de Uyuni: the salt flats of Bolivia.

When wet, they are the most reflective surfaces in the world. As these are the flattest surfaces on the face of the planet, satellites use these salt flats to recalibrate their positioning in orbit. It is home to something wondrous. It's where flamingos migrate and breed. Imagine the worlds most reflective place, mirroring multitudes of brilliant pink flamingos.

But a special plea to all Governments, Uyuni has 50-70% of the worlds supply of lithium. It rests in the brine from which the flamingos feed. Please take care when recovering what is proving to be an extremely valuable resource. For our iPhones, cameras, computers, electronics... they all use lithium.

This post is dedicated to Kevin O'Leary  and Frank Anderson.

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Isle of man

The Isle of Man has become a centre for emerging private space travel companies. A number of the competitors in the Google Lunar X Prize, a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, are based on the Island. The team summit for the X Prize was held on the Island in October 2010. In 2010 the Island was named the fifth most likely nation to reach the moon next. In January 2011 two research space stations owned by Excalibur Almaz arrived on the Island and were kept in an aircraft hangar at the airfield at the former RAF Jurby located near Jurby.