Mt Everest traffic jams raise fears

Mt Everest traffic jams raise fears

Mountaineering experts warned on Tuesday that potentially dangerous levels of overcrowding were expected on Mount Everest after four climbers died as traffic jams clogged up the worlds tallest peak.

Some 200 people will attempt to scale the 8848 meters summit this weekend when the weather is expected to provide the next safe window for the ascent said Nepal tourism official Gyanendra shrestha.

There were a similar number of climbers attempting the summit last weekend he said with four climbers dying of exhaustion and altitude sickness on Saturday on one of the deadliest ever days on the peak.  

German national Eberhard schaaf 61 south Korean song wonbin 44, 33-year-old Nepali- born Canadian shriya shah and Chinese climber Ha wenyi, 55, were all found dead near the summit.

A Sherpa mountain guide had been reported missing but shrestha said the information turned out to be false

Due to an increased numbers of climbers in recent years, there is a bottle-neck every season at the Hillary step, a rockface near the peak that climbers from the Nepal side have to ascend and descend with the help of ropes.

The climbing season runs from late march to the first week in june but this seasons first clear condition for reaching the peak were on Friday two weeks later than usual.

The window had closed by Saturday afternoon due to high winds, shrestha said, leading to a rush of climbers attempting the summit.

The climbers have to rely on a single rope and the traffic jam there will delay the ascents for hours he said by telephone from base camp.

some Sherpas who returned have told me that they had to wait for up to three your hands or feet will be frostbitten Then there is the issue of oxygen high up you tend to use more.

Zimba Zangbu Sherpa president of the Nepal mountaineering Association said climbers were increasingly taking unnecessary risks when time was running out or condition were poor. Now there are so many people trying to reach the top vying for this or that record he said.

Some climbers near the peak most of whom have paid tens of thousands of dollars on the expedition often ignore the advice to expert guides to turn back he added in some cases they don’t even heed the suggestions of their Sherpa guides. The sherpas can not advise them otherwise because their clients will think I am so close to the mountain, why shouldn’t I try a bit more?

Nearly 4,000 people have climbed Everest since 1953 when Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand first scaled it.

Today, Nepal Banda

Today, Nepal Banda :

The endogenous people announce the Nepal Banda since thee days. Nepal is going to federalism so they want own identical and powerful state. It is not suitable in Nepal. In Nepal almost 113 different cast, own language and identity. How to give the own state for endogenous people. Nepal is small country, I thing it is not suitable.    

Sarangkot, Pokhara

Sarankot or Sarangkot is Village Development Committee in Kaski District in the Gandaki Zone of northern-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5,060 persons residing in 1,010 individual households.

The village is located on a mountainside ridge at an altitude of 1600m with panoramic Himalayan views. From Sarankot, on the northern direction we can see Dhawalagiri in the far west . Annapurna range is visible when the weather is clear on the same side. On the southern direction the village overlooks the city of Pokhara and its lake on the north-western outskirts of the city

Finally deal on 11 states, mixed governance model

A tentative boundary delineation of 11 states as agreed upon by the three parties on Tuesday. A final call on the state boundaries will be taken by the central federal commission.

The agreement:

1. Country to be federated into 11 provinces
2. Mixed from of governance
3. An undivided far west that covers nine districts
4.  Central federal commission to recommend delineation.

Bicameral legislatures with 376 members in centre.

Plane crashed at jomsom

At least 15 persons were killed when an aircraft belonging to Agni Air crashed at a hill in Marfa VDC-5 near Jomsom of Mustang district at around 9.30 Monday morning.

Seven people were rescued alive from the crash site. There were 21 persons, including three crew members and 18 foreigners, on board in the ill-starred 9N AIG Dornier aircraft. Two crew members and 13 Indian nationals are among those killed in the crash.

According to Pratap Babu Tiwari, Chief of Pokhara Airport, those rescued have been flown to Pokhara by Simrik Air’s chopper and Tara Air aircraft for further treatment. One among the rescued is said to be in critical condition.

Tiwari who was at the crash site informed that two Denish nationalities and an airhostess Roshni Haiju were airlifted by an aircraft of Tara Air to Pokhara Airport while a Simrik Air chopper rescued two Indian children and an adult to Manipal Hospital.

The deceased have been identified as Pilot Prabhu Sharan Pathak and Co-pilot JD Maharjan. The identification of other deceased has not been established yet.

The plane was heading for Muktinath pilgrimage to Jomsom from Pokhara. The reason behind the crash is yet to be ascertained.
Meanwhile, a Nepal Army chopper has flown to Jomsom to ferry the bodies of those dead in the crash, a press statement issued by Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal stated

Seti flood

The Kharapani area, which was swept away by the Seti flash flood on May 4, is yet to recover from the tragedy.
The tourist hub, which was visited by scores of tourists on a daily basis for enjoying the breathtaking scenes and taking a bath in local hot water pond, wears a deserted look after the flood swept away settlements, including Sadal and Kharapani, in the area located 21 kilometres away from Pokhara.
The flood buried the pond under debris and destroyed suspension bridges, affecting people’s movements while half a dozen hotels and restaurants and three houses of the area were swept away.
Bishnu Poudel, an employee at the Annapurna Conservation Area Project, said 100 to 300 foreigners and local people used to visit
the area to bathe in the pond. “Domestic and foreign tourists also used to visit nearby destinations such as Kavre Mircha and Karuwa and enjoy home-stay service there,” he said.
However, according to local resident Bikram Gurung, the number of tourists visiting the area is zero now. 
“Tourists visiting nearby destinations such as Mircha Kavre and Karuwa used to use a route through this area. But it takes years for this area to revive,” said Basanta Dawadi, general secretary of Pokhara Tourism Council. “The government should work towards reconstructing the damaged infrastructure in the area and restore its original status,” he said.
Drinking water is in short supply in Pokhara after the Seti flash flood swept away one of the two water pipelines supplying water to the city. Experts say supply of drinking water is at risk as the flood also damaged a truss bridge through which the other pipelines is expanded.
Foundation pillar at one side of the bridge situated at the confluence of the Seti and Mardi rivers is partially damaged by the flood while the river is also eroding the other side. “The bridge, along with the water pipe, can be swept away even if there is
a small flood,” said an employee at the Nepal Drinking Water Corporation office. The demand of drinking water in the lake city
is more than 31 million litres a day while the supply is just around 16 million litres

Phewa Lake

Phewa Lake, Phewa Tal or Fewa Lake is a freshwater lake in Nepal located in the south of the Pokhara Valley that includes Pokhara city; parts of Sarangkot and Kaskikot. The lake is stream-fed but a dam regulates the water reserve, therefore, the lake is classified as semi-natural freshwater lake. It is the second largest lake in Nepal, the largest in Gandaki Zone followed by Begnas Lake. Phewa lake is located at an altitude of 742 m (2,434 ft) it covers an area of about 5.23 km with an average depth of about 8.6 m  with maximum water depth is 24 m  Maximum water capacity of the lake is approximately 4,600,000 cubic metres. The Annapurna range on the north is only about 28 km  away from the lake, and the lake is famous for the reflection of mount Machhapuchhre and other mountain peaks of the Annapurna and Dhaulagiri ranges on its surface. The Barahi Temple is situated on an island in the lake