The flight to Lukla

Hurrah!  The weather is good and we can fly out of Kathmandu.  After what seemed like an endless wait, we boarded the tiny 20 seater aeroplane.  I was lucky enough to sit right behind the pilots. 

The plane flies right between the mountains.  Barnaby and several of the passengers were too scared to look even though the cloudy weather made the mountains seem less threatening.

The runway at Lukla is the size of a football pitch so the pilots have to get the landing just right or the plane hits the wall at the far side of the runway.  One plane was involved in just such an 'incident'  a few days ago and we saw it with a bandaged 'nose' being repaired on the runway.