Ryan and the Himalayan Miscalculation
Monday, March 12th, 2007
quicktime———- letterboxed-YouTube ———- Sidewise-iPod-version
Music by Hardcore Hippies
Kunal Khandwala challenged me to take the road to Leh. Considering that the road was closed over with snow, the mission got a little more difficult.
Kashmir: Incredibly beautiful, but danged if the road there and back don’t mess you up. I can’t watch this episode without laughing because I can see my mental state deteriorating as the days march on (also, that angry monkey gets me every time)
Some quick notes:
1) The thing I most regret editing out: The Yeti hunt. (The audio was just too bad.)
2) The thing I least regret editing out: 15 hours of projectile vomiting. (No one needs to see that)
3) The houseboat was actually very nice.
4) The second thing I’m afraid of: falooda.
March 16th, 2007 at 11:26 am
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March 19th, 2007 at 3:32 am
Wow, some people dream, some people live. All these videos prove what I have always known- you definately do the latter. Who would have thought that the little boy I could never get out of the house would grow up to experience so much life? I miss you so much but my admiration and pride by far make up for it. Love, your biggest fan.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Could you at least describe what happened on the Yeti Hunt? That just sounds too awesome to not at least hear about.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Awesome trip but that whole thing about you and the weirdo you were with on a boat kinda scares me! Please be careful! We don’t want anything bad to happen to you! Best of luck buddy! :)
March 20th, 2007 at 7:24 am
“So we’re totally safe, and warm, … and sarcastic.”
Hah! Sounds like it was a blast. ^_^ I second the motion to hear about what happened on the Yeti Hunt, even if the video didn’t turn out. And can’t wait til’ your next episode!
March 20th, 2007 at 7:33 am
Well, imagine any episode of Scooby Doo where a crazy old man yells “Nooooo! Don’t go in there! This’s YETI TERRITORY”, then take out his ability to speak English, and you’ve almost got it.
The guy had been following me for 20 minutes trying to get me to hire him to pull me on his little sled. And I told him that I had sat on a bus for 2 days just to take a walk in the mountains, I wasn’t gonna sit on his little sled.
Then, I got to the point where the road was closed. And that’s when I started shouting about Yeti. I told him it was okay, I would catch one. He told me he wouldn’t be able to follow me in, to which I was not quite as upset as he seemed to expect. So I wandered in myself, and along the way, did some nature-documentary-style shots of me finding Yeti-poop, and yeti tracks and stuff. But it was way windy up there so all you can hear is WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFSH
As far as the houseboat guy, he was awesome! He really took good care of me, and MAN can his wife cook. The footage of me freaked out about the houseboat….. I just included that because I thought it was funny. I don’t remember filming it. I dunno if I was really that out of it, or if I was trying to be funny, but the joke is just that I’m a no-frills kinda traveller, and that I had just spent 0 whole dolalrs a night to stay in a nice place with people trying to spoil me.
March 21st, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Well Ryan you sure have done so many things that I am in awe of. You do worry me at times though. I can’t believe that something always happens to you. You never have a dull moment in your journeys. Know we all love and miss you.
March 26th, 2007 at 8:02 am
That was some experience but I wish you had captured more of Ladakh bec its really spectacular…..