The North Side Of Everest

                                       The North Side Of  Everest

      Since 1989 all the Tibetan side mountain has been included within the Chomolungma Nature Reserve a huge area that extends far beyond the immediate confines of mount Everest itself. Under the terms of the agenda of rt he Nature Reserve Program me not only is wildlife and the natural Environment due for protection but so too is the important cultural heritage of the area. However in view of the large scale desecration of monasteries and other symbols of the Buddhist faith that has occurred under Chinese Occupation it will be interesting to see how this ambitious project is maintained. The southern boundary of the homological Nature Reserve is the lofty frontier ridge which in the Sagarmatha National park of Nepal thus providing complete protection for the world’s highest mountain on paper at least. While it is necessary to Camb to the viewpoints of kala pattar or Gokyo Ri to see anything more than the summit tip of Everest from the Nepalese side the mountains northern aspect is clearly visible far off on the Tibetan plain. It was of fours e from the north that it was first properly explored the first seven expeditions approaching through the windblown fastness of Tibet.  

      

Mount Everest trekking

                                                Mount Everest trekking

The first stage goes to Thyangboche or Tengboche one of those magical places of which dreams are made. Its situation on a wooded ridge above acres of pine and rhododendron forest is truly idyllic. Thameseku and kangaroo wall it to the south Graceful Ama Dablam hold’s one’s attention nearby while the vast Nuptes Lhotse wall blocks valley ahead with the crown of  Mount Everest peering above it. This part of the trek makes the possible introduction to khumbu. The trail is bare in palaces and as it marked a high delivered way above the river so the dram grows it’s a busy trail with much coming and going. There will undoubtedly be car vans of laden yaks lumbering along the path and in dry conditions their hooves scuff the dust into small clouds . Again the weaning is given to make sure you are uphill of them as they pass for an involuntary nudge from a horn flank or load could so easily result in your being sent crashing down to the river . End of trek End of trek . As the trek proceeds beyond Thyangboche so the landscape takes on a stark raw kind of beauty and by the time you’ve reached Pangboche vegetation will be sparse. At pheriche both mountain and valley appear almost sterile by contrast with the plentiful surrounding of Thyangboche .
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Nepal seeks to host saarc Bank HQ

                                                          Nepal seeks to host saarc Bank HQ

 Nepal has spoken its desire to host the headquarters of the saarc Bank proposed by India during the eighth meeting of the south Asia free Trade Area Ministerial council held on july 23-24 in Thimphu. The Nepali side made the offer on Monday during a meeting between Indian prime Minister Narendra Modi and the CPN-UML top Leadership at Hyatt Regency in Kathmandu. Foreign Minister Mahendra Bahadur pandey who accompany the UML leaders presented Nepal’s pid which the Indian Pm is learned to have responded to positively Indian pm. He agreed to it immediately pandey totd the post . Once we receive India’s official consent we will request other member states for their consent said pandey . we have initiated infoemal talks with the members saarc member states are positive about the Indian proposal though India has not decided its fromal position on the bank. The type of the bank ,Its funding modality abd opjectives reain unclear the forthcomin meeting of the saare finance ministers will discuss the bank’s mondality which will be tabled in the saarc summit according to an official at the saarc secretariat. The bank is expected to finance infrastructure development in the region. Officials could not confirm whether the existing saarc Development fund would be upgraded to a bank or a new social economic and infrastructure windows where all the member states contribute agreed sums. Only the social window is Functional . officials say is the functiomation of another bank is good for a country like Nepal which has poor or no infrastructure and faces a huge resource gap to fund development prokects.

Indian prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to well wishers as he leaves the pashupatinath temple after prayers in kathmandu on Monday.

Indian prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to well wishers as he leaves the pashupatinath temple after prayers in kathmandu on Monday.

   Indian prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday performed a special puja at pashupatinath temple offering 2500kg sandalwood worth Rs 30 million. He also announced an assistance of RS 250 million for the conservation of the Hindu shrine. Modi who appeared in his saffron dress remained on the temple premises for 45 minutes as a crowd of pilgrims waited outside to greet him and Musiciansplayed notes to honour his pilgrimage . His offering included special puja worth Rs 27000,and Basuki puja worth RS 5100. The temple provisions pilgrims to make special offerings ranging from Rs 1,100 to Rs million. He wrote on the visitors book that pashupatinath was the power centre of belief anfd treust. I wish that the blessings of pashupatinath will unite both Nepal And India . Felt extremely blessed on offering prayers at the pashupatinath temple this morning he tweeted immediately after. Even before coming to nepal he had expressed his excitement about visiting the shrine. AN importance of my Nepal visit is that I will get the opportunity to pay homage to Lord pashupatinath on a Monday of the shrawan month he shrawan month he had tweeted earlier His anticipation about the pilgrimage echoed also in his parliamentary address on Sunday when he had visited pashupatinath as a commoner. Modi is now listed among the high profile pilgrims at Pashupatinath including Indian dignitary Rvenkataraman Ik gujral PB Narsigha Rao and jaswant singh . Gobinda tandon member secretary of the pashupati Area Development Trust said they were privileged to host the Indian PM.

 

Toll Rises to 10 over 150 still missing i sindhupalchok landslide

Sindhupalchok landslide

 Rescuers have pulled out two more bodies from the site of the massive landslide that blocked sunkoshi River at mankha VDC in sindhupalchok on Saturday taking the death toll to 10 with around 155 feared missing . the home ministry said on Sunday,With one more sluice created on the landslide dam in addition to the two formed on Saturday the risk of upstream and downstream flooding has been redced but not compltely averted.said Nepal Army spokesperson jagadish chandra pokharel.on Saturday an NA team had launched two controlled explosions on the clogged river with three channels of drainage obstruvted water is now being drained at the rate of three inches per hour said ganesh kc spokesperson for the Nepali police. But with the lake outburst still a possibility thousands of trsidents along the river in districts such as kaver Sindhupalchok ramechhap sindhuli and saptari continued to flee to higher grounds for shelter on Sunday , police have also started patrolling affected villages downstream including khurkot people from returning to their houses to retrieve their belongings phe land and the rocks are still sliding. We are worried about the outburst. It will incite another disaster said 76 year old markar dhwoj khatri a resident of Teknapur VDC that borders mankha in mankha teknapur Ramche and Dhuskun are the most affected by the landslide. Grologist and disaster expert ranjan kumar dahal who accompanied home minister Bam Dve Gautam to the landslidre dammed lake onsunday said that if the conditions remained the same it would take another 3-4 days to drain the lake. If we manage the flow of water draining not too much and not too slowly there is not danger of flooding said Dahal. Dahal estimates the dam to be around 45 metre high and the lake 25 metre deep .Until the lake is completely drained and the debris from the landslide cleared araniko Highway will remain closed he said . Meanwhile simrik air has begun airlifting tourists trepped at Tatopani on Nepal Chaina border to dhulikhel in kaver. Around 400 tourists from India,Japan,countries were on their way back from Mansarovar in china. According to Biswas Adhikari of Mimicker air 300 of them have already been lifted to Dhulikhel and the rest will be rescued by Monday, the governments apathy towards the stranded tourists has deeply saddened tourists has deeply saddened them and people like us who are in this sector said Adhikari. Although the Government scrambles to search and rescue victims and to provide immediate relief to those at camps locals at sindhupalchok are disheartened bu its sloe pace .source by Kathmandu post

Nepal India firms wrap up Negotiations

                            Nepal India firms wrap up negotiations

  The Investment Board nepal and India GMR consortium have ended protracted negotiations to reach a power development agreement for the 900 megawatt Upper karnali Hydropower project . After over a year of negotiations both the sides gave final shape to the PDA on Friday. The deal will be a landmark between Nepal and India in hydropower development as it will open new avenues as it will open new avenues ofr foreign investment in the sector that remains largely unutilised. According to government sources an IBN board meeting on Saturday morning will endoorse the agreement.A cabinet meeting will give its final consent to the deal later in the day .The IBN and a high level GMR team have been in talks for five days in their offort to singn a final agreement during Indian prime minister Narenda Modi’s visit . Highly placed sources say the final singning og the deal will likely happen on Sunday between the GMR and the IBN. The PDA draft is ready said the source IN the last round of negotiations both the contentious issues such as dividend on the 27 percent free equity given to Nepal on the project impact on irrigation schemes and benefits for locals.Sources say the final document addresses the concerns expressed by the IBN political parties and the locals in project affected areas . GMR has agreed to allow the use of transmission lines to be built projects and to sell the infrastructure to Nepal if required later. Nepal also gets the first priority to buy the remaining power after GMR sells 55 percent energy to another party. GMR has agreed to upgrade the transmisson capacity if required to allow evacuation of energy generated by other projects in the area Initially GMR will be constructing a 400kv transmission line for upper karnali.

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