Caption: Date: 1967-06-11 Location: Palumtar, Gorkha
Description: Porters and others pass the time in a shot-put contest using large rocks while waiting for a Royal Nepal Airlines plane to arrive at Palungtar airfield. Weather and other factors resulted in unpredictable aircraft schedules and thus people sometimes waited several days at Palumtar. Keywords: Jim Fields, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, games, home life
