Where We Be
| Mount Everest is dead center at the back of the photo, rising above the rest |
| Robin gets ready to board the 30-seater turboprop. We each had a window seat on the partially full flight. |
| Conditions didn't look very promising at first! |
| Then we climbed above the clouds and things got better. This was the moving panorama of peaks outside our window. It felt like we were seeing the backbone of the world. |
| Mount Everest rises highest, with clouds forming a white ocean lapping the "shore" below |
| And this is a wide angle of Everest, at the center of the photo, with flat-topped Lhotse to its right |
| This is NOT Everest, but it's the dramatic view we got from the cockpit when we got our half-minute up front. Views like this make me want to be a pilot! |
| Yeti Airlines treated us right -- the stewardess even helped us identify peaks |
| Another gorgeous view from the cockpit (the clearer cockpit glass allows for better photos) |
| We received a certificate at the end of the flight featuring a photo of a Yeti airplane just about to pass Mt. Everest |
| Total flight time was about an hour (but what an hour!) |
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| Mount Everest Flightseeing, Nepal |
Amazing finale to our time in Nepal. It was an
awesome experience seeing the tallest peaks
in the world spread out before us with a carpet
of rolling clouds at their feet. If anything
deserves the word majestic, the view of the
snow-clad Himalayas from the air certainly does.
In the whole world only 14 mountains rise
above 8000 meters (26,000 feet). Eight of these
are in Nepal – not to mention almost 100 peaks
of more than 7000 meters (23,000 feet). So if you
ever want to do some mountain flightseeing,
this just might be the place.
We were surprised at how great the views were
right outside our passenger windows. We had
expected stellar views from the cockpit -- each
passenger gets a glimpse from there -- but the
moving panorama of peaks from out of the side
windows was just as jawdropping. After all this
was the backbone of the world we were seeing.
Before long we came to Sagarmatha: Mount
Everest (8848 m / 29,028 ft). It looked worthy of
its title of tallest mountain in the world with its
distinctive pyramid shape. Just to its right was
Lhotse (8516 m / 27,940), flatter-topped and
sloping, a clear “V” separating the two peaks.
awesome experience seeing the tallest peaks
in the world spread out before us with a carpet
of rolling clouds at their feet. If anything
deserves the word majestic, the view of the
snow-clad Himalayas from the air certainly does.
In the whole world only 14 mountains rise
above 8000 meters (26,000 feet). Eight of these
are in Nepal – not to mention almost 100 peaks
of more than 7000 meters (23,000 feet). So if you
ever want to do some mountain flightseeing,
this just might be the place.
We were surprised at how great the views were
right outside our passenger windows. We had
expected stellar views from the cockpit -- each
passenger gets a glimpse from there -- but the
moving panorama of peaks from out of the side
windows was just as jawdropping. After all this
was the backbone of the world we were seeing.
Before long we came to Sagarmatha: Mount
Everest (8848 m / 29,028 ft). It looked worthy of
its title of tallest mountain in the world with its
distinctive pyramid shape. Just to its right was
Lhotse (8516 m / 27,940), flatter-topped and
sloping, a clear “V” separating the two peaks.
