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Over the Ecuadorian Andes...
"Paul, I'm scared!" Our 60 degree bank angle screams for attention. The Skymaster controls are sluggish and heavy in the rarified air at 18,500 feet. A light dusting of ice covers the leading edges of both wings; outside the air temperature is freezing.
"Good grief, Mary, that was some air pocket!" Close on our right Cotopaxi, the highest active volcano in Ecuador, towers overhead. 9,000 feet below us the Ecuadorian altiplain hides underneath the icy clouds, ringed and accented with jagged mountains and hills.
"Stay out of the clouds, Paul! If you go into them again we'll pick up more ice and then we won't be able to climb out!"
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The Skymaster and the Piranhas
396 pages - 248 full-color plates
Smythe Sewn |
Paul and Mary are at one of the hairiest points of their light twin airplane flight 3,100 miles up the Amazon River: crossing the Andes!
Follow their journey from home base Florida down the West Indies to South America's French Guiana, then down-coast to Macapá, Brazil at the mouth of the Amazon.
Discover there are worse creatures than piranhas in the water, the exotic legend of the pink dolphin, how Bolivia lost its beach, and meet The Man Who Carried an Airplane on His Back!
For any adventurer who ever dreamed of traveling through the jungle in search of the source of the Amazon, this book's for you!
Amazon River wetlands
stretch to the horizon |
Anaconda |
Grinning tapir |
Route of Flight
Riverboat, Lago do Rei
Quito, Ecuador (9,350 ft): world's second highest capital, topped only by La Paz, Bolivia (12,008 ft)
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