Bin Laden's natural father, who had more than fifty children by more than a dozen wives, died on September 3 , 1967 when his company airplane, a twin-engine Beechcraft, which was being flown by an American charter pilot, crashed as it attempted to land on a mountain airstrip in Saudi Arabia's southern Asir province, where bin Laden had been overseeing road-construction projects.
It's built on a slant, and aircraft have less than 500 metres to halt before airstrip turns into mountain.
My videos were carried by Sherpa runner to an airstrip down the mountain, flown to Kathmandu, FedExed to Bethesda, Maryland, and posted on the Discovery website within a week.
Some dozen members of the Transitional National Council based in Benghazi gave a late-night press conference at the Radisson Blu Hotel to announce they were taking over, but appeared strained and nervous after landing by plane on a makeshift airstrip in the mountains.
There's just a little airstrip in the mountains.
Meanwhile, Chris and Jessica find a base of operations for Veltro; the Valkoinen Mökki airstrip in the mountains.
An hour before dawn, we landed at a small airstrip deep in the mountains of the Colombian Amazon.
It was a marked departure from earlier in the day, when jurors appeared to nod off as Zambada Garcia described how he and Guzman had huddled together in the brush of a clandestine airstrip deep in the mountains, clutching AK-47s and steeling themselves to open fire on the Mexican military.
The terrifying airstrip serves as an entry point for mountain climbers who are keen to tackle the world's tallest mountain.
They've flown into Lukla, a precipitous airstrip on the edge of a mountain that is the gateway to the Everest region, with Hamilton and his assistant guide, Chris Groves, and the sirdar, or head Sherpa, the vastly experienced Pem Chirri, who has summited Everest 12 times.
The drive from the airstrip to the base of the mountain is an ecologist's dream, pre-industrial, rice fields cultivated by hand, lush, green landscapes, clear streams, and unlogged forests of white birches.
