This story of a glider pilot trying to set the world altitude record in Hawaii was picked up by the Oz Report news scraper on the main web page (so you might have read about it there), but Achim Hageman, who lives in Hawaii, adds more material:

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090119/NEWS09/901190347/-1/rss02?source=rss_localnews

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY--mA-Iico

A glider pilot riding the Mauna Kea wave trying to break an altitude record. The YouTube video is from an earlier attempt.