Thursday, May 31, 2007
Monday, May 28, 2007
Everest - Mount Everest by climbers, news
Bhavik Gandhi adding up difficulties: The Kenny G factor Here's another self-sufficient guy, out to win against all odds. Bhavik has rowed most of the Atlantic without a rudder, and that's pretty wild. Listening to music is an important part of Bhavik’s battle. He chooses a genre to fit the mood of the day and then just lets his iPod go. Unfortunately, during a recent row, the iPod went to Kenny G, a saxophone player who is infamous for his down tempo and at times boring tunes. “My first reaction was to reach for the skip button,” explained Bhavik, who however was forced to continue rowing while listening to the demoralizing riffs. “I had my hands on the oars and had a good rowing momentum going and it’s a bit fiddly to get the iPod out of the waterproof casing.”
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Monday, May 14, 2007
Sunday, May 13, 2007
K2climb.net - K2 and Karakorum by climbers, news
Bhavik Gandhi: Same problems, different day Rudder, leak, rudder, leak, throw a storm in there somewhere. The litany of impediments Bhavik Gandhi has faced since setting off from El Hierro has shrunk to a redundant mix of persistent ailments, as he continues to ping pong back and forth between resealing a leak in increasingly creative ways and watching the precarious rudder situation with fingers crossed.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
The Telegraph - Calcutta : 7days
Row, row...
Well, it’s not quite gently down the stream. A young man called Bhavik Gandhi — a 29-year-old Mumbai-bred, Sweden-based venture capitalist — is rowing all by himself across the Atlantic Ocean. He set out from La Restinga off the coast of Spain on February 28 and is said to have just reached the midpoint. Bhavik’s publicists say he is expected to reach his destination, Antigua, 3,000 nautical miles away, sometime in late June. For that, he rows 10-12 hours a day in four-hour shifts in a 23-foot boat. When he completes his journey, he will be the first Asian to row solo across the Atlantic. Why does he want to cross the Atlantic? Because, as the mountaineer said in another context, it’s there.
Saturday, May 5, 2007
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