Were Coming Home!
April 18, 2009
The group are about to leave Kathmandu and should land in Sharjah at 16:40pm. The departure today should be less ‘interesting’ than their – hair-raising – take-off from the 500 meter mountain airstrip at Lukla yesterday morning.
Last night, the C.E.O. of the Kathmandu Guest House (Rajan Sakya) treated the whole team to a farewell dinner where he presented each team member with a souvenir Ghurka Khukuri-dagger (similar to an Omani Khanjar). He congratulated the the team on their significant achievement of reaching their goal with no rest-days and for being the very first group of Emerati National students to reach Base Camp. He remarked, “what a pleasure it has been to have the group staying with us.”
Now their journey is almost at an end, the group have begun to reflect on their experience: Rashid Mansoori perhaps sums it up best in a single word, simply, “magnificent!”
(Posted by Adrian Keech)
