Blind aviator makes a touchdown in Mumbai

He has walked to the South Pole, climbed the Himalayas, scuba-dived 20 km under the Red Sea, and circumnavigated the world using more than 80 different forms of transport — all in the past four years.
Having accomplished all that, Miles Hilton-Barber now has a new ambition — to fly a microlight aircraft more than halfway around the world from London to Sydney, Australia.
It is only when you meet the adventurer that the full depth of his achievements hits you. Miles lost total vision in both his eyes 20 years ago, and is using a revolutionary speech-output technology to fly his specially customised microlight plane on its 22,500 km journey from London to Sydney.
Mumbai is a stop-over en route, where Barber is scheduled to give motivational speeches to raise part of the $1 million he hopes to raise for his favourite charity, Seeing Is Believing.
The visually-disabled adventurer is accompanied by his co-pilot Richard Meredith-Hardy, a well known pilot who was the first person to fly a microlight from London to Cape Town 20 years ago.
28/03/07 Deepa Suryanarayan/Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: Foreign Mar 2007, New Mar 2007