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Robin Basnet Became the Winner of Solukhumbu Trail Race

The winner of the 15-day long 'Solukhumbu Trail Race' organized in Solukhumbu is Robin Basnet from Solududhakund Municipality 1 Taksindu.  Rabin became the winner after crossing the distance of 310 km Solukhumbu Trail Race.  Similarly, Muna Rai was second and Lhamu Sherpa was third.

 Solukhumbu trail race winner Robin says, "Solukhumbu is a matter of pride to be chosen for sports tourism." 39 foreigners and 4 Nepali runners participated in the trail that started from Solududhakund Municipality 8 Dhap.  Led by the Olympic winner Da Chiri Sherpa, the trail started from Pike-Dudhkund-Namche-Sagamaratha base camp and came back to Phaplu.

 Organized by The Small World (TSW) and with the support of Da Chiri Sherpa Foundation and Nepal Mountaineering, Solukhumbu Trail Race shows the potential of sports tourism, according to Karma Sherpa, president of TSW, the organizer.

 Da Chiri, the leader of the trail, mentioned the possibility of sports tourism and said that he will continue it.  According to the organizers, international level races have been organized in Nepal with the increase in tourism activities in Nepal after the corona epidemic.
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Kittiya Pawlowski has captured a fascinating photo of a snow leopard in the Everest region

American photographer Kittiyaa Pawlowski has captured a fascinating photo of a snow leopard in the Everest region
.  Pawlowski posted a photo of the snow leopard on her web page on October 8.  By sharing that page, the American Embassy in Nepal informed about the attractive photo of the snow leopard.
 Pawlowski, a photographer, has mentioned on his website that she captured a picture of a snow leopard at an altitude of 5,486 meters.  She has been working in the field of forest and environment protection.  Photographer Pawloski has said that she was able to capture the attractive photo by walking from Gorpshek at 4 am.

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Five people have taken permission to climb Everest in autumn

Five people have taken permission to climb Everest in autumn.  According to the Department of Tourism, 5 people from 1 group have received permission to climb Mount Everest.  Autumn is not considered a suitable season for climbing Mt Everest.

 The department has given permission to 1,238 climbers from 77 different countries to climb 41 mountains in the country for mountain climbing in autumn.  Most climbers are climbing Manaslu in Gorkha.  As of October 6, 404 people have received permission to climb Manaslu.  The second is the Amadblam mountain.

 According to the department, 336 people from 26 teams have received permission for the mountain.  Similarly, Himlung is one of the mountains that has more than 100 permits.  In which 156 people have got permission.  Only 5 people have taken permission to climb Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world.  115 climbers from the US, 108 from France, 103 from the UK, 77 from Germany and 75 climbers from Spain are among the citizens who have received more climbing permits.

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Mountaineer Christine Harila has returned home after her attempt failed

 The famous Norwegian mountaineer Christine Harila, who came to Nepal to break the record of the world famous climber Nirmal Purja, has returned home after her attempt failed.


Harila, who came to Nepal with the determination to climb 14 mountains higher than 8,000 meters in a period of 6 months, returned after she did not get permission from China, and postponed her climbing attempt for next year.  However, Harila has climbed 12 out of 14 Peaks.  She had to climb  Choyu and Sisapang to complete the journey of 14 Peaks. however to climb those two mountains, only the China route is considered easy.

 But China has not given permission for Harila to climb those mountains.  Although China did not give permission, she tried to climb those mountains from Nepal but it was not successful due to bad weather.

 While returning home, Harila responded that she could not get permission from China due to reasons beyond her control.  But she has said that she will try for this within 6 months next year. we wish her all the best wishes for next expedition.
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Sherpa language application launching in October


 The historic moment to preserve and promote Sherpa language.

Global Sherpa Association - GSA World Sherpa Association has arranged that the Sherpa language can be easily read, heard and translated by everyone through #Apps apps, keeping in view the development of modern technology, needs and conditions of the changing society. We would like to inform everyone that the historic opening will be held this October 8th, 2022, on the occasion of Global Sherpa Day.

This effort of the global Sherpa Association will surely help the common Sherpas and non sherpas all over the world especially the new generation of Sherpas. Its historical identity has provided an opportunity to easily learn the Sherpa language, as well as for non-Sherpas who want to research or learn the Sherpa language; this app can be an important useful tool for them.

 


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Young and energetic Climber Dawa and team scaled Mount Board Peak



 Dawa is a young sherpa climber from solukhumbu who started his mountaineering career in his early age. His father used to do trekking in different part of Nepal also used to climb peaks. Dawa also decided to be a mountaineer seeing his fathers career. Now he is 36 and he climbed Everest 8848 more than 6 times. 



This year 2022 he is in the team to climb mount K2 which is the second highest mountain in the world. in july 05 2022 Mr Dawa and his team scaled Board peak 8051M the twentieth highest mountain in the world. Now  they are looking for next window to Summit Mount K2 .Team sherpa wish him all the Good luck for his new project 

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Tara air 9N AET was Crash confirmed 14 dead body were collected

 


The Tara air 9N AET flight was departed yesterday from pokhara airport to Jomsom Mustang with 19 passengers and 3 flight member. Flight was missing after 10 am yesterday after few second contact with jomsom ATC. 

Nepal army , Nepal police and flight authorities were involved in searching team but unfortunately they couldn't find the crash location and flight sitaution due bad weather. Monday Morning Yersa Gomba searching team found the crashed location and infromed to authorities. Crashed location is kobang Sunsare Mustang. which is closed to ManPati Mountain. As per the local the dead bodies were hard to indentify. None of passengers and crew members were found alive. 9N AET was flying captain Prabhakar Ghimire.14 dead body were collected by the searching team. all the dead body are bringing kathmandu today. 


news source news24/Ratopati/onlne khabar

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