With the trekking part of our trip completed at the end of March, it was time to go to the mountain town of
Pokhara for a well earned shave and head massage. This was Alan's best shave in years.
Then we went to the International Museum of Mountaineering that contains an exciting rock collection.
and a scale(able) model of
Manaslu. It was treacherous. White paint on rocks is suprisingly slippery!
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| The closest Jennifer will ever get to climbing an 8k+ meter peak. |
The museum closed early because, we were told, the prime minister of Nepal had been killed! It turns out the an ex-prime minister had died of old age a few days before. It was at about this point that we realized we had not seen a newspaper for nearly a month. We pondered whether everything in the homeland was still OK and had another beer.
We plucked up courage to try paragliding as Pokhara is one of the best sites in the world for it. The feeling of running off the side of a cliff is exhilarating. We circled on thermals following hawks and then the pilot performed some acrobatics before landing by the lake. Jennifer's pilot let her take control of the wing for a few minutes and everyone survived to tell the tale.
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| Jennifer can barely drive a car. How can she fly? |
2 comments:
I'm impressed! I see Jennifer free soloed on Manaslu then tested her luck further by cliff diving. Is the stick with the camera on it that the (former) pilot is holding also for fending off bird attacks?
Yes, I am such a daredevil, aren't I? I suppose one can use the stick for bird attacks, but I think it's much more effective as a camera holder.
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