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Here are a few pictures taken during the NESA Fall Leadership conference that Crystal and I attended. The conference kept us busy and we didn’t see much but we did have a good time with what free time we had.
Several of the Nepal photos seemed to lend themselves well to some desaturation and other antique post-processing. Enjoy this last batch of pictures from Kathmandu.
One of the high points of our Nepal trip was a turbo prop flight along the Himalaya mountains. We were up before dawn for a ride to the airport where after plenty of waiting and three cursory pat downs we boarded the plane. The flight was only 30 minutes or so and even at our highest altitude we were looking up at Everest. Very cool.
The plane had two rows of seats so every seat had a window. On the way west along the range one person had a mountain view and on the way back the other did. On departure there was still was a cloud layer (that later dispersed) which the mountain tops certainly exceeded but it was hard to capture a sense of the scale of the mountains.
Now I’m mostly a flat lander from the midwest and there certainly aren’t many mountains around where we live now but I have visited a few ranges and certainly flown over many. The striking thing about the Himalayas was how abrupt they were. From 4500ft (where Kathmandu is at) they rise another 20,000 – 25,000ft over a fairly short distance.
Now that we have been back for a week I have the pictures off the camera and processes. Here is the first batch with some of the sights we took in when we had some free moments from the conference.
My first trip to Kathmandu! I’m here for two days of work and then Crystal will join me later for the main conference. I was lucky enough to have a window seat with Himalayan views on the way in. Stunning. No other words. That comes from a mid-western flat lander so maybe I am easy to impress but still. Wow!
