Pavel was a legend in the uk too. He managed to hicth hike from london, to cornwall, then to south wales in 2 days, with ALL his kit. Kite-surfing on everest? Legend.

Rumour has it he once nursed a dead squirrel back to health using just lucozade and a discarded suppository.

Yep, met Pavel at the Scabs wave event in Feb. Lots to say about hitching, snow kiting and sharks. Good value bloke

bro thats only half the story remember after he got outer the pond he started talkn to some people that had come from the australian open tenis and he scabbed some tickets off them and ended up sittin right up the front near the VIP section ahahaha.

what other sik **** did he do in the UK Oakie?

Pavel is a classic. I think the guy must have travelled around Oz this summer for free. He travelled shotgun with me for about a week and I don't think I ever saw his wallet. Show what studying economics and working as a "banking analyst" teaches you eh?
He also holds the world record for distance hitch hiked in 24hours http://www.autostop.lt/records.html
Caused a minor international incident when he claimed to have summited Everest (solo) but hadn't paid the Chinese fees for permission praguepost.com/P03/2005/Art/0623/news4.php
www.mounteverest.net/story/stories/EverestLhoLaGhostclimbertellshisstoryMay292003.shtml

Charming dude, rubbed some people the wrong way, Pavel, if you read this, Googling your own name, come back and kite with us again sometime!

Something's just occured to me - why the hell would you cart your kiting gear all the way up everest??