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Archive for August, 1999

Manfred Ruhmer’s diary

Friday, August 13th, 1999

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Issue#3/July (August) 1999
Kitzbühel -RedBull- Competition

The RedBull SpeedRun took place in Kitzbühel, a famous ski resort in Southwestern Austria, from July 1st to July 3rd. This competition, new for most of you, has a story behind it which I would like to tell.
The ‘Hannenkam’ [...]

Skyfloating to a near-100 miler

Wednesday, August 11th, 1999

I didn’t even plan on flying that day and little did I know that in a few hours I would be dehydrated, hypoxic, and on my way to the Falcon World Distance Record.
Everyone else was so focused on setting new cross country records, I knew I needed to at least take a flight just to [...]