A moment of (low flying) zen

Things you can do with a jet fighter in the Swiss Alps.

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Read this article by Mark Newton. This gets murkier and sillier by the day. Late addition: From the comments at the linked site:
I enjoy most any mix of science and mountaineering — part of why I so like Mark Bowen's Thin Ice, his book about climatologist Lonnie Thompson's remarkable work documenting global warming in high-altitude glaciers.
I am sitting at the window seat of the Alitalia flight. It is flying over the Italian alps near Milan, few minutes away from landing.
Climate change has been blamed for a lot of things, sometimes not entirely based on the scientific evidence. But this is a first, at least to me: From today's Guardian:

Totally awesome...Where's that damn barf-bag....

Whee!

How many avalanches did this flyboy trigger to make his video?

By Pierce R. Butler (not verified) on 28 Feb 2007 #permalink

Jeff: the song is "Ameno" by a group called Era. Here's a YouTube video of the song:

Thrilling.

When I took my Mountain Flying Endorsement, they left out most of that. Actually quite a bit of it was to expressly warn us not to get into those situations.

Several tens of thousands of horsepower do make a difference.

By JohnnieCanuck (not verified) on 28 Feb 2007 #permalink