
I did know I was going somewhere a bit unusual when I signed up on a press trip to the depths of the Himalayas. The chance to visit a remote mountain kingdom with a five star hotel waiting at the end (thank you, Pemako)? Hello, trip of a lifetime.
But it wasn’t until the guard frisking me at Delhi Airport’s security scanners paused and began staring at my boarding pass that alarm bells started to ring. It was the final leg of my 24 hour journey and she looked worryingly intrigued, even to my jet lagged eyeballs.