remarkable Airports

Skybird · 08-18-07, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by porphy

Ouch!

I'm looking forward to that landing once I go to Nepal for mountaineering... Landing strip ends with a mountain wall, what is that?

Hopefully it is not worse than taking of at altitude in a overloaded army helicopter in Kyrgyzstan. I had seen this video from the year before I went there crash . With that in memory, I can honestly say that the take of from the glacier was more scary than anything the acctual climb involved.

Cheers Porphy

Wait until you take off in Lukla. The tarmac sometimes is not long enough to allow the airplanes getting airborne, so they just roll over the cliff and fall down into the valley - and then they start to fly. The trick probably is to close your eyes and think of an albatros... Or you pray to Skybird

CCIP · 08-20-07, 01:52 AM

I'm impressed the end of that runway is a solid-looking wall rather than a pile of, ahem, compressed planes Skybird

08-20-07, 01:52 AM	#2
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