For perspective, this trolley was probably 60% bailing wire and the distance across was close to 300 feet. To recalibrate your reference point for cold one might try wading into the Zanskar, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Below, our first video post. Check out the brave face of Indiana Stampe!
For more about some of the most remote terrain in world, read Michel Peissel's classic travel narrative Zanskar or check out his wiki
Elizabeth looks very happy! I guess at a certain point, you have to accept fate, and say: this thing either holds or gives, might as well enjoy it!
ReplyDeleteYour posts are making me miss landscape. I am so cut off from it here. We have been getting rain, though. As long as it lasts, I am able to go outside without dying of hives and histamines. The minute it is over, I'll be back in my sealed compartment.
Why do a disproportionate number of posts on this blog make me nauseous?
ReplyDeleteJD, that's exactly right: embrace fatalism. My success at that is mixed, especially on bus rides over mountain passes, but it seems like it helps if it's quick!
ReplyDeleteBreego, I think it's a plot. By India's transportation engineers.