Then the men gave up, tied the body awkwardly across the mules back, stiff as a board, and started the trek down.
It was too stiff to fit comfortably on the mules back, so the men got ahold of it at each end and unsuccessfully attempted to bend it.
Having traveled widely, including a mule-back trip to Tibet the year before the Chinese took over that country, he was also an Honorary Fellow of the Explorers Club.
A packer must be strong enough to lift awkward, heavy, often unruly loads onto the mules' backs and then remove them all at the end of the day.
Up until 1962, before the pass was sealed, goods such as pens, watches, cereals, cotton cloth, edible oils, soaps, building materials, and dismantled scooters and four-wheelers were exported to Tibet through the pass on mule-back.
The scene of Homer and Apu riding on mules to the Springfield Airport, with their luggage strapped to the mules' backs, is similar to a scene from the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia.
For twenty years the bar sagged in the middle like a plough mule's back.
In the second case, if the search is not fast enough, the resource will be retrieved next time the data mule comes back.
Mr. Tobón plays Don Fernando, who ships mules' bodies back once he locates the families in Colombia.
