Disclaimer: I realise I use the words "awesome", "amazing", "beautiful", "stunning", "incredible", etc, a lot. It's not that I have a narrow vocabulary, it's just that there are no other adjectives to describe some of the things I've seen.
Later in the day Clare and I boarded a minibus to take us up another one of the Annapurna mountains for paragliding. These mountainous roads were half rubble, with lots of hairpin bends and vertical drops for added excitement. Clare and I, being two white girls in a van full of Asian men, stuck out like sore thumbs and I was alternating between two thoughts most of the way up the mountain: 1) I've got no idea where we should be heading, this is a hell of a lot of trust to put in a van full of strangers, and there's a chance this bus journey could be subject to analysis in British tabloid newspapers, and 2) I hope my instructor isn't the one who keeps winding his window down to gob out of it. These two thoughts gave way to "we're really quite high up now" and "it's interesting that we're still climbing". Eventually the bus stopped and I felt relieved that we weren't going any higher - until we were told to walk up the last bit!
When we finally reached the top I wasn't sure if being above cloud level was helpful or not; sure, I couldn't see how far down the ground was, but the implication was probably 'pretty bloody far'. By the time our instructors (I didn't get Gobby!) got us harnessed up and the parachutes sorted, the clouds had cleared and we could see precisely what we were running off. Out of the two of us Clare went first, and she had a bit of a botched take off - her an her instructor sort of stumbled, and then got picked back up by their 'chute a little way down the mountain. I watched this, contemplated every life choice which had led me to this moment, and then heard "run, run, run!!" being shouted. We ran, off the side of a mountain, and then flew down. The only English words my instructor spoke were "run", "beautiful Pokhara" and "nice?" - but he did let me loose with a GoPro and a selfie stick, plus I was sitting on his lap, so we bonded! We glided for about 25 minutes, and landed on the shore of Pokhara lake. It was awesome.
Love Emily x
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