Mission Everest is now fully underway, it's so exciting to be up here in at just over 14,000ft in the foothills of Everest with all our equipment and the whole team together preparing for our first weather window. We've found the perfect location for our airstrip, on our doorstep is smooth grassy slope running directly into the
prevailing wind, we're clearing all the boulders and bushes at the moment making it a really safe runway and landing area.

Today we're setting up the engineering tents which is of course brilliant news for me. I can atlast start to re-assemble both the machines and check them over thoroughy before our first launch.

Of course, I'm praying hard that there should be no mechanical or electrical problems, if anything has been damaged on it's way up here into the mountains this is the time for us to find out. I've bought atleast one spare for practically every component on the engines so we should be well covered just incase. 

The weather has not been great for flying since we arrived which is in fact great news for us as we have so much still to do in the way of prepartions. The great news is that in a few days on the 15th and 16th we are forecast a weather window and we will by then be completely set up and prepared for it!!