if you look really really hard, and squint like hell, perhaps you can make out the peaks of mount everest at the top left corner of the picture. it was taken en route via the thai airways flight to kathmandu. the captain was nice enough to alert us to it. surprisingly, marketplace mentality didn't prevail and there wasn't a mad rush to snap photos through the pathetically small aircraft windows. i guess the majority of the passengers have been there and done that. took my time to experiment with the lousy contraption i call my camera and failed rather miserably. this photo was taken by my more photographically inclined friend and i must say it isn't too bad, given the fact that my camera was bought in the early years of this decade when bob the builder was the in thing.

amazing isn't it. commercial planes hover around 30-35 thousand feet (i think), and this natural monstrosity is a mere 29 thousand feet or so. i can so imagine some dude waving at us from the peak. plane watching must be quite interesting at the top, sitting at the peak with a cuppa, some sandwiches, or a popiah and watch planes pass by. oh, and don't forget the oxygen.

19th sept 2009