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Show EDWARD G. LUEDERS e rua 1 2 00 passengers. Hitch-hikers is what we were and if we didn t have our own o yg n th y didn't have it for us. It was cargo planes we were on. And so that was I don t know what the altitude was, but it had to be considerable! And the thin air! And we were told "Stay where you are. Don't exercise up here. Just sit in your bucket seats, and stay there. Drink water." WIN: Were their portholes where you could see out? EDW: The little circular windows, yeah, so we could see out. But they were small, and they were portholes, actually, rather than windows, even in the size we are accustomed to on commercial jets. So, we saw imperfectly, but there wasn't any question that we were over very, very mountainous and rugged country, some of which I got into on foot later, .1( but not in great depth in Sylhet. WIN: Did you have interest in mountains at that time? EDW: Yes, I did. But not in the way it's developed since, since I've been in the West, and mountains have become a part of my everyday life. It was part of the exotic nature of my overall adventure there, and an important part, because I got to the mountains individually on leave at the mountain rest camp in the village of Sylhet and hiked into the Himalayas. Day hikes. And I felt myself a part of that landscape thereby. Otherwise, the mountains were below me. Way below me as we flew over back and forth. WIN: Everest goes up to nearly 30,000 feet, or 29. EDW: Of course we'd fly over the more negotiable areas, but even those would be ... WIN: About 20 anyway, huh? 48 *. Note-: ~w~~ \...\J~c}-.r-s \'iri'e..Y n..o._cl ....,.-t .S ~\heT w.s -if.c. ~me. 0~ ~ a\"".sTr ;p· "the. "'; l~e.. 1'\arn&d ~.S Sh~llc>N:) · |
