Omar freefly alhegelan biography of william
I’ll start this article by screaming just WOOOOOOOW!!!!
The answer is ‘YES’!
Dreaming about jumping over the ancient Egyptian Pyramids in Egypt was somewhere at the back of all my thoughts but constantly shining through in my head. One day I received a message from Mahmoud Sharaf, the organiser of the event, asking if I would like to join the boogie as a camera flyer and shoot for them. The answer was given in half a second and it was just “Yes – bring it on!! But still couldn’t quite believe it until I had a ticket in my email telling me, «Man, wake up you’re gonna jump the Pyramids»!
Arrival
I arrived at a very nice hotel right in front of the Pyramids in Giza, with a stunning view of the ancient culture of Egypt. On the first day of the event, while participants were still arriving from around the world, Moustafa Saeed, the main organiser of the event, came to me with a question… Would I like to replace Tom Noonan on the first jump and take his tandem passenger, Jim Wigginton, as Tom was not able to get there in time. So it seemed I had no choice, I was really excited to do my first jump out of a C and the first ever tandem jump above the Pyramids! So of course the answer was ‘yes’.
Day 1
The first day at am we went to see the landing area. In the beginning it looked a bit sketchy and rocky but I chose myself a nice spot and aimed for it perfectly. Acompanying us on this jump was Paul Henry as a camera flyer.
After landing I literally couldn’t speak. It was so emotional, flying above one of the Seven Wonders of the World! I was almost touching the top of the biggest Pyramid of Kheops.
The day carried on, packing chutes in the hotel on a comfortable carpet floor. Everyone moved for lunch in one of the very good restaurants right in front of the Sphinx, tasting Egyptian food and it was delicious. Then all of us sat in the buses and went to the Pyramids to look inside and do the touristic thing. Bill Booth wanted to make the picture like he’s touchi
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1) What made you decide to start skydiving?
It was on my bucket list ever since I was I thought that once I got older I would do it once to say I did it. I finally had the opportunity to do a tandem at Skydive Monroe when I was I went back the next Saturday and did my Accelerated Free-Fall (AFF) class.
Then I spent the next four to five years jumping as much as I could. I had a job that allowed me to travel so I would try to find hotels near drop-zones depending on where I was going. I jumped at The Ranch in Gardiner, NY. I jumped at Skydive Kapowsin in Shelton, Washington and at Skydive Arizona. I took the opportunity to travel and jump as much as possible. When I wasn’t traveling, I jumped at my local drop-zone every weekend, rain or shine. Then I gradually started getting into other things like indoor rock climbing. Eventually my job changed where I wasn’t traveling as much as I used to. After awhile I found myself jumping less.
2) When did you start skydiving?
I started skydiving in It was the year after I moved back to GA I jumped for six years from before my daughter was born. The first I was knocking it out; then after that I jumped every so often. I was doing adventurous things other than skydiving. I took a nine year break after I had kids. Then, in I got recurrent at the Farm, or Skydive Georgia.
3) What was the skydiving scene like in the early aughts?
I jumped out of a King Air at Skydive Monroe. Bill Scott was the owner. For special events, we’d get a CASA. During the week at Monroe we’d jump out of a Cessna. There were a lot of belly flyers—both the old school kind who started skydiving back in the 70s, and the newer kind. My drop-zone was probably seventy percent belly flyers. I also jumped at Skydive Atlanta. They were mostly free flyers back then. Trey owned it and he was also the jump pilot. Back then I thought I’d get into free flying. I still have a vintage free flyer suit, the baggy kind In Explore Himalaya played a key role in organizing a record breaking event in the Nepal Himalayas: Everest Skydive. The event was dubbed as adventure of the year and made it straight to the record books for being the first of its kind in the history of the Himalayas. Many who were involved in this event went on to create world records. This event generated worldwide attention to the remote hamlet of Shyangboche, in the Everest Himalayas where this event took place. Everest Skydive is now an annual event. The historic Everest Skydive event came to a finale today. 41 Solo and Tandem Jumpers skydived in front of the World’s Highest Peak and landed on the highest drop zone in the world, Shyangboche (12,ft.). Their names have made it the international record books. 1st Group In the first group, except for Fareed Lafta who jumped from an altitude 18,ft, the rest of the dives were made from 29,ft. 2nd Group Except for Martin Preston who jumped from a height of 19,ft., the rest of the jumps were made from 29,ft. 3rd Group – 29,ft.Everest Skydive
SN Name Country Solo/Tandem Landing Time(local) 1. Fareed Lafta Iraq Solo AM 2. Christophe De Pauw Belgium Solo AM 3. Wendy Smith New Zealand Solo AM 4. Steve Hennessey (Australian) & Peter Baker (British) Australia / Britain Tandem AM SN Name Country Solo/Tandem Landing Time(local) 1. Martin Preston Britain Solo AM 2. Omar Alhegelan USA Solo AM 3. Ryan Jackson Britain Solo AM 4. Ralph Mitchell (British) & Molly Beddingfield (British) Britain Tandem AM SN Name Country Solo/Tandem Landing Time(local) 1. Wendy Smith New Zealand Solo AM 2. Steve Hennessey (Australian) & William Thomason (Kiwi) Australia / New Zealand Tandem AM 3. Namira Salim (Pakistani) & Tom Noonan (Ame