https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters daily 1.0 2025-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/4b3c0366-f275-45aa-8aea-2bf706dd94af/What+Happened+to+the+Hippy+Man_Front+Cover_Artwork.jpg https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/1-foreword-and-forewarning monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/2b3d0b7b-11a0-43c1-a6bb-342212afa680/pakistan+map.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/2b3d0b7b-11a0-43c1-a6bb-342212afa680/pakistan+map.jpg Home - Chapter 1: Foreword and forewarning https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/2-a-walk-in-the-valley-of-the-shadow monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/e3608d5a-5579-461f-93ef-2cb42698403e/02+pete+doing+doctoring.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/928f58c2-2da2-4a93-95d6-e674246cd771/01+pete.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow My brother, Pete Thexton, at a base camp somewhere in the Himalayas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/381e4abb-d50d-4ea5-9673-52b8e410c3a2/02+pete+doing+doctoring.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow Pete doing the expedition doctor thing – the backside probably belongs to Al Rouse, who died in Pakistan while I was there in 1986 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/3bcd158a-3129-4ceb-88a0-e000de342290/03+selecting+porters%2C+skardu.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow Selecting porters in Skardu for the 1983 expedition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/0b3debe7-0fc5-432d-825d-6258a33eca8a/04+pete+leading+on+lobsang.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow Pete leading a pitch high on Lobsang Spire – one sort of mountaineering https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/c06e098b-90ec-4628-8a73-996c505c14b5/06+porta+ledge+bivy.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow Portaledge bivouac on Lobsang Spire – looking down the cliff from which the portaledges are hanging https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/dbfa99e7-9e60-4b26-973e-0082d6d3869b/05+pete+on+lobsang.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow On Lobsang Spire – another hippy man https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/297ace3f-b2c4-43d3-86a5-66280226def6/07+broad+peak+near+high+camp.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow Another sort of mountaineering – Pete (just visible) ascending Broad Peak near the high camp The Baltoro Glacier is in the background, running down towards Urdukas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/4e49410d-2461-4495-9076-bb83ecfc7eab/08+pete+on+broad+peak2.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow The last descent: Pete returning along the summit ridge of Broad Peak, K2 in the background https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/d1675c98-23ab-41e3-9f70-4e467672256b/pakistan+map+003.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow Map of the main mountains around the Baltoro glacier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/b3704be6-3c86-4d18-bc13-5b4c70b5d608/prospectus.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow Misunderstanding the national religion of Pakistan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/f6cf9953-1c66-459c-921f-e0074df437b8/09+greg.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow 1986: Greg Child was on his way out of the mountains as we were going in – we met in Skardu at the K2 Motel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/2c9e0230-15ea-4252-8c3e-d6508373521d/10+braldu+1986.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow A local porter carrying a load in the Braldu gorge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/4b5031e9-4d57-4a47-bb95-68ef4914f544/11+urdukas.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow Urdukas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/d7356124-ba67-4b5c-a195-478fd4ac219f/12+base+camp+manager.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow Base Camp Manager https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/44f4029e-9116-4809-8855-f6c74464842d/13+cook.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow Ghulam the cook things about the menu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/d11a98b0-ea73-4e2c-844a-8efd1e04c5b4/14+chicken.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow Chicken dinner for fourteen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/efebd53c-f14f-42a4-9404-6d5fd31c2c48/15+stew.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow The goat, Stew https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/add5650d-333e-4593-88cc-b729152e5adb/16+ghulam+the+cook.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow Standard expedition food https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/ad2bb2d2-4de1-40b6-8b68-77a32cbb6dcd/17+petech+1.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow Rachel with one of the lip-sucking machines (see page 20) – try getting that through airport security today https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/8e6844db-9297-4a62-b0e4-de3b8f55e92f/18+petech+2.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow Lip-sucking at high altitude https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/3a2bf094-3c63-44ae-8b71-104801b6847b/19+petech+3.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/f5df71f7-680d-45d2-b2e8-3731e501cd6d/20+lips.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow Count the bruises https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/a704cbc1-35ee-4dcf-b56d-42427123d7e3/21+masherbrum.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow Masherbrum by night https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/285962e6-d942-4c97-b697-a432a6e2f3c5/22+gasherbrum+IV.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow Gasherbrum IV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/ce29505d-f4c1-4350-a6e6-576a834d74a4/23+lobsang+spire.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow Lobsang Spire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/fd7521c9-853c-4425-a563-2351fe198f44/24+me+and+lobsang.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow At Urdukas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/ad31f908-c255-49cc-9583-7333228b586a/25+cold+bath.jpg Home - Chapter 2: A walk in the valley of the shadow World’s coldest bath https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/3-homeward-bound monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/c397dadc-7698-49d1-af04-f66256b1945c/27+snorting+coke.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/368dc41f-963c-444e-bbce-4a9ca020d52d/26+chips+in+skardu.jpg Home - Chapter 3: Homeward bound Back to civilisation, 2 September: eyes bigger than stomach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/c397dadc-7698-49d1-af04-f66256b1945c/27+snorting+coke.jpg Home - Chapter 3: Homeward bound Reduced to snorting coke? https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/4-to-the-airport monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/d2a560e6-352d-4572-a0d2-4cce02817c2f/seat+diagram+titles+first+appearance.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/8d7d107a-565b-4a60-aec5-1a6f47e9e104/karachi+airport+diagram.jpg Home - Chapter 4: To the airport This diagram was given to me by the SAS when I told them the story - I have always been disturbed by the relative size of the plane and the hangar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/88b6e881-158f-4fde-af96-0a58fe2a2d76/30+jumbo.png Home - Chapter 4: To the airport Jumbo on the taxiway at Karachi Airport https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/cfd9f3e3-5e72-4bf3-8d39-6db9abc4aad8/34+front+steps.png Home - Chapter 4: To the airport The front steps (afterwards) - first and business class passengers boarded here, followed by two hijackers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/8354d249-b790-42cd-aca1-8bf8ec62c059/40+luggage+labels.png Home - Chapter 4: To the airport Cleared for take-off? Security tags applied to my hand luggage in the airport https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/d2a560e6-352d-4572-a0d2-4cce02817c2f/seat+diagram+titles+first+appearance.jpg Home - Chapter 4: To the airport Layout of Clipper Empress of the Seas https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/5-it-begins monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/e6ecb280-cd9b-42f9-861a-8c12cd5a3f48/35+van.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/e6ecb280-cd9b-42f9-861a-8c12cd5a3f48/35+van.png Home - Chapter 5: It begins Fake security van used to gain entry to the airport https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/92bb6fbf-13a8-4426-8b90-c97cbfb8febb/41+kalashnikov.png Home - Chapter 5: It begins Two Kalashnikov AK-47s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/1e78c19d-e750-49e5-a69c-3bf169f0db2d/42+second+kalashnikov.png Home - Chapter 5: It begins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/7884684c-315a-469c-993f-99e9fa434c5f/43+handguns.png Home - Chapter 5: It begins More of the terrorists’ weapons - two handguns with magazines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/d8e8c2e2-6d34-433e-92ec-25fde5b1ff7a/44+hand+grenades.png Home - Chapter 5: It begins Hand grenades – at least six were thrown in the plane https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/40d83c2b-33d6-4d4f-a9d3-057040842e43/45+plastic+explosive.png Home - Chapter 5: It begins Plastic explosive belt worn by Abbas around his waist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/165faa1d-aa10-422d-b12b-cdd1f4377734/36+abbas.jpg Home - Chapter 5: It begins The man I knew as Abbas – Zaid Hassan Abd Latif Safarini https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/6-this-is-a-hijack monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/707fdd93-3838-474e-ac4e-0c120486a9c1/37+rajesh+kumar.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/4d8c5025-e8c7-43c7-9d3d-cbfeb4b824ad/38+Flight+attendants.png Home - Chapter 6: This is a hijack Pan Am cabin crew course, early 1986 – eight out of fifteen were together on board on 5 September (Sunshine is third from left, Neerja is ninth) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/f9dfa4c3-d3db-47de-9288-17d138894d09/38A+Flight+attendants.png Home - Chapter 6: This is a hijack Identifying the members of the course who were on the plane - team spirit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/47495ed5-39bb-4c37-8cf6-66f009a1ade8/39+neerja+2.jpg Home - Chapter 6: This is a hijack Neerja Bhanot, the senior purser https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/707fdd93-3838-474e-ac4e-0c120486a9c1/37+rajesh+kumar.png Home - Chapter 6: This is a hijack The first victim, Rajesh Kumar – not an obvious target, just the nearest body https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/fcfdcb62-c9da-4d59-9e01-6c352e52ff5f/seat+diagram+hijack+start.jpg Home - Chapter 6: This is a hijack Plane layout showing the situation in the early part of the day https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/7-the-passport-raffle monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/0794cc47-72cf-485d-93f1-850fe9f063ce/48+passport+3.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/d51e57ff-ef3c-40f0-ad41-e17097508c9f/46+passport+1.jpg Home - Chapter 7: The passport raffle The second most unpopular passport in the world? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/d7b4a09d-f102-4ca6-ae6a-7c9fd06f175f/47+passport+2.jpg Home - Chapter 7: The passport raffle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/0794cc47-72cf-485d-93f1-850fe9f063ce/48+passport+3.jpg Home - Chapter 7: The passport raffle Where are you from? Are you a soldier? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/36ab2178-8a98-4f59-80aa-acd95fbc12f5/49+front+stairs.png Home - Chapter 7: The passport raffle Where are the pilots? The bottom of the spiral staircase between the two front doors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/e3aff3dd-bdd4-4736-86a7-dca56e2f2841/50+by+the+front+door.png Home - Chapter 7: The passport raffle This is the space behind door L1 where I spent most of the day waiting to be shot – the flight attendants sat in the two pairs of seats aft of the door https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/8-saying-prayers monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/7e39d22b-24f1-48f2-97ad-c5ca7b9a3217/seat+diagram+at+the+front.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/7e39d22b-24f1-48f2-97ad-c5ca7b9a3217/seat+diagram+at+the+front.jpg Home - Chapter 8: Saying prayers Plane diagram showing the situation for most of the day https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/9-settling-down-to-wait monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/4c943903-9018-4187-b7e5-0d9e1073a7b8/31+control+tower.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/4c943903-9018-4187-b7e5-0d9e1073a7b8/31+control+tower.jpg Home - Chapter 9: Settling down to wait View of the plane from the control tower https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/439074dd-470d-47e4-85ac-8563f463d6ce/32+control+tower2.jpg Home - Chapter 9: Settling down to wait Negotiators at work in the control tower https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/8e767997-d830-4e92-9aa2-8b285580fc70/33+front+of+plane.jpg Home - Chapter 9: Settling down to wait The front of the plane during the siege https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/12-the-beginning-of-the-end monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/42971308-0382-47ab-975d-d4916fbc5fea/51+bullets+in+windscreen.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/42971308-0382-47ab-975d-d4916fbc5fea/51+bullets+in+windscreen.png Home - Chapter 12: The beginning of the end Mysterious bullet-marks in the cockpit windscreen, as seen the following day https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/8be49334-ece7-4545-8ba6-fbaaba6e355d/52+starboard+wing.png Home - Chapter 12: The beginning of the end The view from the starboard wing, looking back at R4 with the chute down – hand luggage is strewn across the wing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/3369f098-76e0-4143-8aa0-5a3f822875be/53+slide+on+tv.jpg Home - Chapter 12: The beginning of the end Looking the other way from aft of the L4 slide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/6472e0d4-bf11-434a-bdb1-b0a5fa29ce8b/54+seat+damage.png Home - Chapter 12: The beginning of the end Someone else’s blood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/ba537895-e0f4-414b-9e4e-a2f0811baf60/55+locker+damage.png Home - Chapter 12: The beginning of the end Shrapnel scars – Row 47 is in the rear cabin, F and G are on the starboard side of the plane https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/ea71ecec-480e-4d50-9057-22d2248a0d9c/56+toilet+damage.png Home - Chapter 12: The beginning of the end Bullet damage in one of the toilets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/6cb01fb7-e344-4b8b-9372-2fb9760b0768/57+seat+damage+2.png Home - Chapter 12: The beginning of the end Grenade damage in the seats https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/d3cc625f-8169-4138-956d-e3cf2e1d60fa/seat+diagram+finish.jpg Home - Chapter 12: The beginning of the end Plane diagram showing the end of the hijack https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/14-the-terminal monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/4489e65a-dd3e-418e-ae8c-d33fbac36846/63+wounded.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/4489e65a-dd3e-418e-ae8c-d33fbac36846/63+wounded.jpg Home - Chapter 14: The terminal Television picture of wounded being taken to hospital https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/15-the-sheraton monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/a9c2b548-66cb-496f-b9f4-646db4323bbc/60+statement.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/2969fb2b-c71e-41a6-93a3-a7914edb0449/74+davison.jpg Home - Chapter 15: The Sheraton Newspaper clipping about the man we thought we were held hostage for - Ian Davison https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/8c3c733b-9cef-4bb9-a131-007b8b336fae/60+statement.jpg Home - Chapter 15: The Sheraton The start of the statement I wrote out in the Karachi Sheraton, 5/6 September 1986 https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/16-the-morning-after monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/544ebb71-97ac-4f6b-8d02-6d5324d87bcf/richard+melhart+and+me.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/5ccef4ec-6d68-4b64-abbf-97fb0f0782d0/58+muslim.jpg Home - Chapter 16: The morning after Two nations, two stories: Pakistan celebrates a success... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/f711f488-77b4-47ee-8f66-e9b5e0dcf8ce/59+india+today.jpg Home - Chapter 16: The morning after ...but India sees it differently https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/544ebb71-97ac-4f6b-8d02-6d5324d87bcf/richard+melhart+and+me.png Home - Chapter 16: The morning after Richard Melhart and me being interviewed on ABC News from a studio in Karachi - the whole interview is on Youtube https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/17-the-journey-home monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/52609299-8fdd-4f7e-afeb-c0b2abc1a226/62+boarding+on+way+home.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/ac6a46d5-390a-45b3-8d9e-c6d3adf83ee7/61+me+in+departures.jpg Home - Chapter 17: The journey home Being interviewed in the check-in area before the reserve flight brought us home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/52609299-8fdd-4f7e-afeb-c0b2abc1a226/62+boarding+on+way+home.jpg Home - Chapter 17: The journey home ‘I had you down for economy’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/140e72d9-2c3d-4e49-a59f-e5b1623818e3/64+yet+more+shoes.jpg Home - Chapter 17: The journey home Unclaimed shoes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/71e73492-a6b1-4665-ab4e-2b23b7f78c8b/65+more+shoes.jpg Home - Chapter 17: The journey home Someone finds hers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/e8776e42-c596-4e95-91da-4b516500430f/66+bloody+shoes.jpg Home - Chapter 17: The journey home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/f8fe2ee0-ddb4-44c3-b54d-c0d8b7037dd2/71+hippy+man+hat.jpg Home - Chapter 17: The journey home My ‘bloodstained hat’ makes a distinctive arrival at Heathrow in the press crush https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/c776cdeb-8a3b-4001-a00e-da57fa03b41e/28+heathrow+going.jpg Home - Chapter 17: The journey home Heathrow before (13 July 1986)… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/a39a4d0b-09f2-4ed9-8ea3-588fae2ce86c/29+heathrow+back.jpg Home - Chapter 17: The journey home …and after (7 September 1986) https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/18-on-the-news monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/44bbfb54-03e1-473c-9905-11d08c02b4f3/72+nick+ross.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/8a885e36-e3ca-4772-9a3c-8b0879bb8c83/67+jan+leeming.jpg Home - Chapter 18: On the news Jan Leeming on the BBC News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/167b25b3-742f-471a-8653-7ab8e81a1e5c/68+trevor+mcdonald.jpg Home - Chapter 18: On the news Trevor McDonald (now Sir) reads the news https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/1605f231-a31d-483e-a33b-a2aa0f9b8c2c/69+general+zia.jpg Home - Chapter 18: On the news General Zia's press conference https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/c89785cd-4741-4e9c-8a83-868118f63a41/70+zia.jpg Home - Chapter 18: On the news ‘The punishment of which is death sentence’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/44bbfb54-03e1-473c-9905-11d08c02b4f3/72+nick+ross.jpg Home - Chapter 18: On the news Breakfast time with Nick Ross https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/575947eb-733f-40a2-89de-253a562f9d6f/73+frank+bough.jpg Home - Chapter 18: On the news Frank Bough grills the Pakistani Ambassador https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/20-yesterdays-news monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/948789ff-24b4-467b-a51d-441426eb942d/78+lecturing2.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/6ad7e1c8-fb32-4cb7-9c8a-8ac87814d644/77+lecturing.jpg Home - Chapter 20: Yesterday's news? A normal day back at work – just me, a class of accountants… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/948789ff-24b4-467b-a51d-441426eb942d/78+lecturing2.jpg Home - Chapter 20: Yesterday's news? …and a BBC camera crew https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/3d87c170-7f23-457d-89ae-e5dd6b49ba7c/79+stapleton.jpg Home - Chapter 20: Yesterday's news? Struggling with the question about the storming that didn’t happen, 12 April 1988 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/f50b4c04-39c6-451c-9b4f-adb08090318d/81+sameboat.jpg Home - Chapter 20: Yesterday's news? ‘In the same boat’ Sir Geoffrey Jackson, Uruguay, 1971, 8 months Sheila Matthews, Balcombe Street London, 1975, 6 days Me, Karachi, 1986, 16 hours https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/21-dealing-with-it monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/b3dd2837-5638-40a5-bdcc-8902edad9942/80+hostages.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/b3dd2837-5638-40a5-bdcc-8902edad9942/80+hostages.jpg Home - Chapter 21: Dealing with it A clutch of hostages, Army Staff College 10 September 1992 Me, without beard, Karachi Airport 5 September 1986, 16 hours PC Trevor Lock GM, London Iranian Embassy April/May 1980, 6 days Terry Waite CBE, Beirut January 1987 to November 1991, 1,760 days With us are Major-General Mike Rose CBE QGM, DAC David Veness; Professor Paul Wilkinson (as they were then – the first two have since been knighted) https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/22-1992-and-2000 monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/b95c2d59-2827-40dc-8653-bc61bbfc7932/76+blast+wedding+day.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/b95c2d59-2827-40dc-8653-bc61bbfc7932/76+blast+wedding+day.png Home - Chapter 22: 1992 and 2000 The IRA have their go at the Thexton family, 11 April 1992 https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/24-meanwhile-back-in-a-pakistani-jail monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/c6895aa2-3d08-4933-8a40-36ee7fe39e31/zaid+in+jail+001.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/c6895aa2-3d08-4933-8a40-36ee7fe39e31/zaid+in+jail+001.jpg Home - Chapter 24: Meanwhile, back in a Pakistani jail… Photograph of 'Abbas' - Zaid Al-Safarini - in Pakistan at some time in the 1990s https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/26-jamal monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/6b12a082-c435-4618-83f9-69fe1322fecf/84+jamal+letter.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/5a1dda12-6880-472b-87dd-a1ebbbfd0bbf/82+jamal.jpg Home - Chapter 26: Jamal Jamal at about the time of the hijack https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/e32e649c-f0e4-4ad5-b0bc-515fbbadea2e/83+jamal+now.jpg Home - Chapter 26: Jamal Jamal in 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/6b12a082-c435-4618-83f9-69fe1322fecf/84+jamal+letter.jpg Home - Chapter 26: Jamal Part of Jamal's letter to me https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/27-the-federal-court monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/ee34d915-839a-4353-858c-6e479080d207/88+sunshine+and+me.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/e6324087-ea89-439c-b71f-71af7ce0bea7/85+daroga.jpg Home - Chapter 27: The federal court Viraf Daroga and his wife Perviz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/0dbdb303-07e2-466e-bdd6-59a0d6b8783d/86+maisel+and+levy.jpg Home - Chapter 27: The federal court The avenging angels, Gregg Maisel and Jennifer Levy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/3fac4029-acd1-46dc-9d2b-c796fb4869a9/87+attendants+in+DC.jpg Home - Chapter 27: The federal court Four heroines and a hippy man https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/ee34d915-839a-4353-858c-6e479080d207/88+sunshine+and+me.JPG Home - Chapter 27: The federal court Sunshine and me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/37d797cc-1e60-40ee-8298-4af8492a2fb9/melhart.jpg Home - Chapter 27: The federal court Richard Melhart in 2004 https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/29-what-i-learned-in-america monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/56867ad1-0f44-4310-b6ea-81ae52a95e85/89+neerja+1.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/56867ad1-0f44-4310-b6ea-81ae52a95e85/89+neerja+1.jpg Home - Chapter 29: What I learned in America A trust was set up in Neerja’s memory to honour women who show comparable courage and dedication to duty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/1cc00e1a-98e8-4c21-925b-e7c5c7d5f2c2/90+neerja+citation.jpg Home - Chapter 29: What I learned in America The citation for Neerja's bravery award https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/28-the-case-for-the-defence monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/e5df422b-eb26-4b07-8171-6629e95d066b/90B+bureau+of+prisons.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/e5df422b-eb26-4b07-8171-6629e95d066b/90B+bureau+of+prisons.jpg Home - Chapter 28: The case for the defence Bureau of Prisons notification – the release date seems a bit early for 160 years, but still a long way off https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/30-award-and-lawsuit monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/9a415b2e-03c8-4348-aedf-6be4717e1a74/91+award+ceremony.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/9a415b2e-03c8-4348-aedf-6be4717e1a74/91+award+ceremony.JPG Home - Chapter 30: Award and lawsuit The award ceremony https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/a9013d2f-b284-4f32-b896-b62aae0f3ee0/92+award+ceremony.jpg Home - Chapter 30: Award and lawsuit Sunshine at the lectern https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/31-book-and-letters monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/3848bac7-2542-407c-b4b1-b696a7a654ec/Letters+from+and+to+Zaid+2006_Page_1.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/3848bac7-2542-407c-b4b1-b696a7a654ec/Letters+from+and+to+Zaid+2006_Page_1.jpg Home - Chapter 31: Book and letters A letter from Zaid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/f8391194-e152-41b8-b8bb-c490a64a9b93/picture+31.jpg Home - Chapter 31: Book and letters Zaid in his prison cell in 2007 https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/32-films monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/fbe85f99-7254-4a16-9b68-6216a2fe02b5/dan+gingell+in+reconstruction.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/fbe85f99-7254-4a16-9b68-6216a2fe02b5/dan+gingell+in+reconstruction.png Home - Chapter 32: Films Dan Gingell in 'Get Out Alive', Discovery Channel 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/ad2549e0-2922-40f8-aa4d-25d13459fc64/90+ANeerja_Poster.jpg Home - Chapter 32: Films Poster for 'Neerja', 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/e3f3db8a-e467-44a7-8af5-439cb834560a/khanjan+artwork.jpg Home - Chapter 32: Films Extraordinary ceramic artwork by Khanjan Dalal in memory of 5 September 1986 https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/33-questions-and-answers monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/3a9da0d8-e521-4268-9ad6-3eb379b81d4f/97+Boat.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/cc4cb907-88ed-4100-87f7-edc39fd9099d/96+documentary+poster.jpeg Home - Chapter 33: Questions and answers Publicity poster for Hijacked: Flight 73 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/3a9da0d8-e521-4268-9ad6-3eb379b81d4f/97+Boat.jpg Home - Chapter 33: Questions and answers Photo of me with Peter used to set the scene in the documentary https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/b99314a8-f4d3-44c7-af7e-5c8b24aaac15/98+Me+and+Pete.jpg Home - Chapter 33: Questions and answers Peter and me https://www.hippyman.co.uk/chapters/34-closure monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/c72e30e1-1f82-4751-8507-7f81f4b3e235/94+hippy+man+bw.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/c72e30e1-1f82-4751-8507-7f81f4b3e235/94+hippy+man+bw.jpg Home - Chapter 34: Closure 1986 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b4b6a22a702c54be096815/a73e4fbd-be41-4e5a-90eb-cfdab99480f9/95+me+cropped.JPG Home - Chapter 34: Closure 2006