Himalayas Mountain Flight - Work On the Internet

We had one of our good clients from Australia, Mr Peter Allison, visit us in the LangtangRi office a couple of days before returning to Australia in September 2012. He had spent two weeks exploring parts of Nepal with us and now he had just two days left in Kathmandu before flying home. Peter told s he very much wanted to trek to Everest Base Camp but he just did not have time on this trip to Nepal. We suggested he might like to take a mountain flight that can take him to Mount Everest and back to Kathmandu in just over an hour on the morning before his flight home. Peter thought that was a great idea so we made all the arrangements for him. When he returned to Kathmandu after the flight he was so thrilled by the experience he wrote us a short note telling us all about it. Here is what he wrote.

Thanks to LangtangRi the flight was really easy. I had the hotel car take me to the domestic airport and bring me back to Thamel after the flight. I was the only Australian in the group of 15 people on the flight. There were people from the United States, Holland, India and other countries on the flight. We all had a window seat and buckled-up for take-off.

Everest is surprisingly close to Kathmandu and we could see the summit in the distance very soon after take-off. On the outward leg of the flight my seat was on the side of the plane facing away from the Himalaya. But that reversed on the return leg. As we headed east from Kathmandu the snow-capped mountains quickly came into view in the widows on the other side of the aisle. I could see the 7,000m Langtangmountains very quickly and then more and more came into view as we headed toward Everest. Langtang looked so good I think that is where I will go trekking next year.

The hostess came down the aisle and pointed out all the mountains to us. She knew every peak and exactly how high they are and which was the 5th highest in the world and which was the 6th. Everyone had their noses and cameras pressed to the windows. Where I come from in Australia, Brisbane, we never see snow and what we call mountains in Australia are mere bumps in the road in Nepal. The view, even across the aisle, was fantastic.

I saw Gauri Shankar at 7,134m or 23,405 feet jutting into the sky. We have nothing anywhere near this in Australia. In fact, I think it is possible to catch a bus to almost the summit of our highest mountain. Any Nepali would just call that a hill.

We went further east and I saw 7,181m Melungtse. I had seen this mountain on my flight into Kathmandu nearly two weeks ago but did not know its name, now our knowledgeable hostess told me all about it.

As we headed toward Everest our hostess arranged for each one of us to go up to the cockpit and take into view the pilots see very day. I was the luckiest person on the plane and had my turn at the cockpit just as we were approaching Everest. Stepping into the cockpit was like stepping into an Imax theatre. Wow, wow, wow! There is was. Everest and forest of snow-capped peaks jutting skyward. I couldn???t believe how mountain peaks could be piled higher and higher on the shoulders of the ones below. Peak after peak after peak. I had seen photos and maps of the Everest region before but never understood just what a massive pile of mountain peaks this region held.

There was one peak in particular, I think it was Pumori, 7,161m, that just looked an impossible mountain. A massive mountain with another needle-like summit balanced on top. I kept thinking it was about to fall off. How could a mountain like this exist? Why is it still there? This was something to behold. I would never trek there. This is as close as I would ever get. Even in my imagination I would never have constructed such a mountain.

I took in the view from the cockpit and the pilot even ducked his head for me as I snapped lots of photos of Sagarmatha herself. The massive pyramid with ice particles being whipped from its summit by winds we were flying through. Lhotse was just to the side of Everest and the curve of the Nuptse ridge seemed to hug and protect Sagarmatha. But my turn at the cockpit had come to an end.

By the time I had returned to my seat we had turned 180 degrees and headed back toward Kathmandu. Now I had a window seat facing the Himalaya and we were even closer to the mountain peaks. What a bonus. I pressed my nose and camera to the window all the way back. I couldn???t press the camera button fast enough. The parade of massive peaks now ran in reverse and I captured photos of every one.

But all too some we were back at Kathmandu airport. One of the American ladies I chatted to before the flight, Karen from Tennessee, had told me this flight was part of her ???bucket list???. She, and everyone on the flight, were all smiles when we stepped out of the plane. We had all ticked a big item from our bucket lists.

So, if you have a morning to spare in Kathmandu I suggest you drop into LangtangRi and ask the wonderful team there to book you on a mountain flight to Sargarmatha. Bring your camera!

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