Dinner with the mayor?

For anyone that knows Alan well, knows that only in Alan fashion could he be in the middle of timbuktu Nepal and get himself invited to a dinner party and a nights stay at the Mayor of Bedding's home.  The man has a knack for making an impression in the best way possible through few words, a stellar sense of humor and an easy smile.  Though I might be a bit bias.  So that is where the guys will be their Friday night.  

Since coming down from Langmoche Ri and back into Na, they have done a great deal of exciting ice climbing and have put up a very cool sounding new route in the area.  Think overhanging corner crack transferring to an ice pillar!  When I talked with Alan last night they were going to go back to their camp and take a nap before making the hour walk down canyon to the festivities in Bedding (largest town in the Rolwaling Himal).  It was on their way back from ice climbing that they ran into the Mayor and in somewhat broken english struck up a conversation with the two Americans and invited them to a dinner party and a warm nights sleep in his home.  Sounds like a very rich, cultural adventure that they're on.  They will begin to trek back to Kathmandu about the 28th of next week.  Two weeks from today they'll be back in the States.