Note to self: never shake the bucket of nuts before you’re tied to the yak rope
Truer words have never been spoken.
This BBC article quotes Time Asia, reporting about a unique new tourist attraction in India. Apparently run (and started?) by one man (Peter Dorje), this “sport” entails going up on a mountain with a bunch of yaks, attaching yourself to a rope and a pulley mechanism, shaking a bucket of pony nuts*, and then really really hoping or praying to your god that the rope or pulley doesn’t break as this giant yak comes stampeding down the mountain at you. When all works well, you get yanked UP the hill while the yak charges down.
What happens when you get to the top, I don’t know. Maybe you are catapulted off the other side of the mountain and you land somewhere in Nepal. That would be cool. Sign me up.
Anyway, the sage advice from Mr. Dorje is “Never shake the bucket of nuts before you’re tied to the yak rope.”, and, you know, I am not going to argue with the apparent yak skiing inventor.
* I was going to be all cool and informative and link to something describing what pony nuts are, but incredibly, a search for “pony nuts” (with the quotes) returned zero results on Google when I tried it (perhaps some kind of anomaly). So, I’m sorry I can’t tell you what the hell a “pony nut” is…but apparently yaks like them.