TAAN unvites nominations for foure awards.

Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal has issued a public notice, seeking nominations from individuals and organization for four awards that it is giving away on the occasion of its 34^th anniversary and international sagarmatha Day on May 29. Every year, TAAN sagarmatha Dr Harka Gurung Award, TAAN sagarmatha passing Lhamu Award and TAAN sagarmatha pemba Doma Education Award. Anyone can nominate persons or organizations if they think they deserve the awards. The award sub-committee of TAAN will study the nominations and declare the winners. TAAN sagarmatha journalism Award, which carries a purse of Rs 50, 000, will be given to journalists making significant contribution in the promotion of mountain tourism through their respective media.  

Begnas Lake, the second largest lake of Pokhara Valley is situated at an altitude of 650m. It is located in the Siswa village on the eastern part of Pokhara and is 13 km away from the Pokhara city. It covers an area of 3 sq. km. Average water depth of the lake is 9.37 and the maximum water depth is 13.84m. The capacity of the lake is 29.05 million cubic meter. It is comparatively deeper in the northern and western part in the comparision to eastern and southern part. The lake water is drained out by Khudi Khola from the western part.

Tilicho lake

Tilicho lake is one of the highest lakes in the world. It is 4,949 m high in the Annapurna range gh (16,138 feet).

Mountain lakes are known to geographers as tarns if they are caused by glacial activity. Tarns are found mostly in the upper reaches of the Himalaya, above 5,500 metres. Due to the extremely inhospitable surrounding terrain and the difficulties associated with reaching the area, this lake is rarely visited by outsiders.

It was also the site of one of the highest ever altitude scuba dives. A Russian diving team consisting of Andrei Andryushin, Denis Bakin and Maxim Gresko conducted a scuba dive in the lake in 2000.

Trekkers attempting the Annapurna Circuit route usually cross the watershed between Manang and Kali Kandaki valleys over the 5414 meters high Thorong La pass. The alternate route skirting Tilicho Lake from the north has been gaining popularity. This route is more demanding and requires at least one night of camping. New lodges have been built between Manang and the lake, but there are no teahouses or lodges past the Tilicho BC lodge some kilometers east of the lake and the next village of Thini Gaon in the Kali Kandaki valley. Most groups spend two nights between these places. There are two passes leading to Thini Gaon and Jomsom; Mesokanto La and Tilicho North pass known also as Tilicho "Tourist pass". These routes via Tilicho Lake are more often closed by snow than the higher Thorong La

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.