http://youtu.be/fCcXWOJ8YWo

http://corinnaflies.blogspot.de/2014/06/flying-over-nevado-de-toluca-video.html

Since I saw the gigantic volcano in the year 2000 on my first trip
to Valle de Bravo, I always dreamt of flying over Nevado de Toluca. What does it
take to get up there? First, you need a really high cloud base, as the mountain
is almost 4700m high. Also you need a rare day of low wind speed to not have too
much turbulence around the crater walls. Good organization and ground crew is
important, as you might land out any time on the trip. It helps to have other
pilots around, so you find the thermals faster and more reliable.

It was a day during the pre-pre-worlds competition when we had a turnpoint
merely 10 km away from the Nevado before going to goal. Until then, we had
already passed plenty of tiger country, but with cloud streets at around 4500m
msl, that didn't seem to bother anybody. I first tried to fly up the Nevado from
the north, where our turnpoint was, but I sank out and got low - one pilot
landed up there. I sneaked around to the south western side where I saw a fire
and climbed up again, all the way until I reached the clouds at almost 5000m. I
didn't want to stay too long up there, as I didn't have oxygen with me. Luckily
with my job as a flight attendant, I'm used to working at about 2300m of
"altitude", at least the air pressure in the cabin is reduced to that height. I
felt fit and comfortable, so I headed towards the peak.