Lukla airport

A couple quick items, this airport is named the most dangerous airport in the world.  That isn't because it is deadly in particular, it is because it is a crazy airport to land and take off from.  The runway is 530m long, 30m wide and slopes at 12%.  It has a cliff edge on the approach and a cliff on the back edge.  Tenzing-Hillary Airport



There is no instrumentation on the runway, it is visual approach only.  So needless to say it gets closed a lot due to weather.

We opted for helicopter flights into and out of Lukla which are much more reliable weather wise and also a lot safer I think.



This is a video I took of our Helicopter approach and landing at Lukla.

About two weeks before we arrive, there was a plane crash at the airport.  The wreckage from that crash was still sitting there.



I took some video of a Plane taking off from Lukla, its interesting to watch this process.

When we were leaving the tea house to head to the landing pad, some young girls at the tea house wanted to be our porters.  So we "hired" four of them so they could show the world that girls can do everything the boys can do.