Fly by in Nepal

As best I can recall I have flown over around or by: The Great Pyramids, The Alps (piercing the clouds for as far as I could see), the Grand Canyon, The Straight of Magellan (actually discovered and charted by Admiral Hong Bao of the great Chinese treasure fleet one hundred and two years before Magellan), New York at night, a brilliant protozoa except for the black vacuous rectangle of Central Park (anchored by a stick pin of light at Wollman Park). And now Mt. Everest, via the 10:30 flight on Buddha Air out of Kathmandu. According to the Buddha Air web site over 150,000 passengers have been treated to this sight, far more than the approximately three thousand who have summitted, of which about nine percent perished on the descent. To my knowledge no one has died taking the Buddha Air flight past the mountain, at least not expired while experiencing the flight, to be more precise. Fortunately we were not given tee-shirts or bumper stickers proclaiming, This Body Flew Past Everest. Obviously this marketing idea has slipped past the folks at Buddha Air. I suspect this will be rectified as soon as the current world economic meltdown is staunched.