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Himalaya
Day 49: Pokhara to Chomrung
Early morning microlite flight over the lake and up towards the mountains. Myself in one tiny craft, Nigel filming me from another. Feel terrifyingly unsafe. Tucked in behind a Russian pilot with a big Seventies moustache who speaks only in thumbs-up signs, with thin air on either side. Cavorting at 10,000 feet above the ground, secured only by a car seat-belt across my lap, I experience pure terror for the first half-hour, and for the next, as we come down low over the shining lake and wooded hills, pure joy. When I get back to breakfast, someone shows me the front page of the Kathmandu Times. So much for secrecy. 'Maoists abduct British Army Officers', reads the headline. Below is a jumbled report, which not only includes our director among the abducted, but has promoted him as well. He appears in the story as 'Brigadier General John Paul', which I hope won't go to his head.
And still no word on their whereabouts.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Himalaya
- Chapter: Day 49: Pokhara to Chomrung
- Country/sea: Nepal
- Place: Pokhara
- Book page no: 110
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