Dale Kramer - an incredible story

I met Dale and Carmen Kramer in 2000 at Mafikeng. Dale flew K1 in the standard class. In early April 2007 Dale flew an incredible 1637 km in his LS8 for the longest flight in Northern America that season http://www3.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?flightId=-837502820
(it was not the full distance flown as the logger memory wrapped around the start)
On 17 April 2007 Dale set of on yet another distance attempt - it did not go that well. His incredible story of the flight, his rescue and recovery is at http://www.sailplanes.info/16April2007/k1.html
It is well worth the read.