The Himalayas
If you follow me on Instagram you may have seen one of my videos taken during the plane ride to Nepal. The flight path took us over Pakistan and northern India, which is when I caught my first ever glimpse of the Himalayas. Look, I obviously knew that they were a gigantic mountain range, but I was not prepared to see them from above. For perspective, I was in a jet cruising at probably 500 mph at an altitude of around 50,000 feet, and for an hour, each time I looked out the window, there were snow capped mountains as far as the eye could see. They seemed to go on forever. I couldn’t help myself—I was out of my seat, at the back of the plane, bouncing back and forth to look out of the emergency exit windows on each side of the plane. And for an hour, on both sides, all I could see were snowy mountains. It was jaw-dropping to witness in person and an experience I will never forget.
“The Himalayas make you insignificant. When you are trekking in the mountains of the Himalayas and finally you reach the top exhausted and completely wiped out; you look down and you see nothing. For hundreds of miles you see just hills, mountains and mist; when you look up from your sleeping bag at night you can see just stars.”
-Victor Banerjee
