So the trip to Everest Basecamp began yesterday. Cathy took Jeff, Silva and I to the airport Thursday morning.
I dropped my altimeter (gift from Rose and John) going through security. 
First casualty of the trip.
We then met John Raithel at the gate and boarded our A350. About this time it started snowing.
Turns out Jeff, Silva, and I were all assigned to row 32.
The the plane went to the pad for de-icing and then got in the cue to take off. We were the next one to depart when the captain decided we needed another round of de-icing and we would need to refuel since we were burning so much on the ground. The captain we needed to add 2 additional tons of jet fuel, which he then explained was not that much
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Current status: de-icing. For the second time. #MM4MM pic.twitter.com/R6wscivMxF
— Joel M. Topf, MD FACP (@kidney_boy) March 1, 2018
So the whole back to the gate to re-fuel, back to the pad to de-ice and get back in the cue to take off put us 3 hours behind schedule.
Jeff found it odd that we would need to refuel before taking off, but it turns out that Detroit to Seoul (DTW-ICN) is one of the longest non-stops that Delta flies.
Note the route we are taking because this the source of the post’s title. A few hours into the flight, I looked outside of the window and caught the last glimpse of the sun setting.
Then a few hours later I opened up the shade expecting to see darkness, but I got…
We had gone far enough north that we were able to keep up with the rotation of the earth so we were trapped in a perpetual moment after sunset. Eventually the sun must have set and night passed but I never saw it. A few hours later I looked out and it was getting lighter with Friday’s dawn.
We landed at 7 PM at Inchion International Airtport. We went through a shockingly relaxed customs and immigration and took a bus to Paradise City, a new, and very nice hotel.
Today’s adventure: Kathmandu!