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Nepali Festival based Photo competition launch by NTB

 

Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) on Thursday announced the launch of a photo competition depicting culture and festivals of Nepal.According to the press release issued by NTB, the main objective of the competition is to bring hopes into the lives of Nepali people and spread positivity.They achieve to do so by engaging people in creative work of arts so that they feel optimistic, become encouraged to overcome the present COVID-19 crisis and embrace the new normal scenario.During the competition launch programme, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NTB Dhananjay Regmi expressed his hope that organizing such competitions will give a platform for the people to engage, interact and explore their talents of art and creativity. This will further promote Nepal’s tourism in the national and international fronts through the domestic culture, traditions and festivals, Regmi added. CEO Regmi further said that the enthusiasm and fervor shown by the contestants in the past has been so much encouraging that the NTB took a decision to organize the photo competition as photo series competition this time.Participants will need to post seven different pictures depicting the festivals, festive activities or any relevant pictures online on the photo campaign website https://photonepal.travel by November 25, 2020.The outstanding five participants will be handed-over a cash prize of 10 thousand rupees each as a token of love and inspiration, according to NTB. The board has been organizing the photo campaign giving it a name #photonepal with an objective of promoting Nepal’s tourism since last four years.The first photo exhibition displayed some incredible photos of Nepal taken by Tony Hagen on February 2016.Similarly, the promotion of Nepal’s tourism through the launching of photo campaign as a work of art took a larger shape with the launching of photonepal.travel with over twenty-five thousand pictures posted by 11 thousand members archived so far.

News sources : The himalayan times 

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Bahraini Prince came to Nepal to Climb two mountains

A mountaineering expedition team comprising of Bahraini Prince Sheikh Nasser Bin Hamad Al Khalifa arrived in Nepal on Wednesday morning to climb two Himalayan mountains, an official of Nepal's Foreign Ministry said."The team arrived Nepal at around 11 a.m. (local time) at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu where a team of Nepal's foreign ministry welcomed the expedition team," Suresh Adhikari, assistant spokesperson at Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who led the team of ministry officials for a courtesy call at the airport, told Xinhua on Wednesday.According to the press release posted by Nepali embassy in Bahrain on its website on Wednesday, an 18-member expedition team comprising 15 members of Bahrain's Royal Guard and three British climbers had set out for Nepal in a private jet in early morning on Wednesday.According to the Seven Summit Expedition, a Nepali company, which is organizing the expedition, the team plans to climb Mt. Manaslu and Mt. Lobuche. The 8,163m high Mt. Manaslu is the world's eighth highest peak lies in the western Nepal while Mt. Lobuche (6,619m) lies in the Qomolangma region.But the team has not yet received permit from Nepal's Department of Tourism to climb these mountains because Nepal's Department of Tourism issues the permit at the presence of the team leader as per the mountaineering rules of the Himalayan country. Mingma Sherpa, managing director of Seven Summit, told Xinhua on Wednesday that the permits could be received by Thursday as all the required documents have already been submitted to the department.According to Sherpa, this team is climbing the two peaks in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic as a part of preparation to summit Mt. Qomolangma in the spring of 2021.After arriving Nepal, the team is currently staying at Gokarna Forest Resort at the outskirt of the Kathmandu's city area where they will spend a week in 'hotel quarantine' in line with health protocol of the Nepali government, according to Seven Summit Trek."After a week, the team will first set out for Mt. Lobuche which the team plans to climb as a part of acclimatization to scale the Mt. Manaslu," said Sherpa. "The expedition team set out for Mt. Manaslu after scaling the Mt. Lobuche." This team is expected to remain in Nepal for around two months. Even though Nepali government is yet to permit foreign tourists to Nepal visit, the Nepal's cabinet in late August had decided to permit the expedition team comprising of Bahrain prince.Meanwhile, Nepal's cabinet early this week decided to allow foreigners who want to visit Nepal for mountaineering and trekking starting from October 17. "But, they should produce a medical report confirming that they don't have infection with coronavirus," said Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, Nepal's Foreign Minister and spokesperson of the Nepali government at a press meet on Tuesday. Enditem
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Nepali Dhaka Fabric - Made in Nepal

Nepali Dhaka Fabric - Made in Nepal

Shorts History of Dhaka.

            Dhaka is a textile that holds special significance in Nepal.
It was once only made in a place called Palpa, in Western Nepal. It is where it gets its name from that is Palpali Dhaka. Dhaka is a beautiful hand-woven fabric from Nepal, with infinite color and pattern possibilities! It was traditionally hand-woven on wooden looms in Palpa and the hilly areas of Eastern Nepal passed down from one generation to the next. 
Funnily enough, Dhaka is actually the capital of Bangladesh. Back when Prime Minister Junga Bahadur Rana ruled Nepal (1846-1877), his daughter Damber  Kumari lived in Banaras(Varanasi) in India. She uses Chamua  Read More 
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Himalayas and sea are having fever due to Human beings :Sonam sherpa

Himalayas and sea are having fever, We must clean rivers 21st century started since Jan 1, 2001. The beginning of the 21st century has been marked by the rise of a global economy and consumerism, deepening global concern over terrorism and an increase in private enterprise.Effects of Global Warming and rising sea level continued, with eight islands disappearing between 2007 and 2014. Natural flowing watercourse like a river is sensitive to nature.Rivers are part of the hydro logical cycle. Water generally collects in a river from precipitation through a drainage basin from surface runoff and other sources such as groundwater recharge, springs, and the release of stored water in natural ice and snow packs (glacier). When the negative impacts toward nature grow even if the part of the river is intoxicated it flows down to the sea, ocean harming every ecosystem knowingly unknowingly.     

Sonam Sherpa Climate Change Campaigner 


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Polluted air makes nature Cry : Sonam

Nature is lively, clean and green. Air plays a big role in the part of Nature. There are different gases and Oxygen is a gas every living being craves for. Carbon dioxide is a gas we exhale everyday. Air is mostly gas. It’s a mixture of different gases. The air in Earth’s atmosphere is made up of approximately 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen and 1 percent of other gases too, such as carbon dioxide, neon, and hydrogen. 

While air is mostly gas, it also holds lots of tiny particles. These particles in the air are called aerosols. Some aerosols like dust and pollen are picked up naturally when the wind blows. But the air can also carry particles that cause air pollution, such as the soot, smoke, and other pollutants from car exhaust and power plants. When there are too many particles in the air, it can be difficult for plants and animals to breathe. According to research it costs 38 trillion dollar to create oxygen for 6 months for all human being on earth but Trees do it for free. Nature evolves creature around for the food chain and natural activites but human being are interrupting the relation by creating more and more artificial substances and toxic chemicals. Global Warming/Climate Change is also the cause found in nature because of more and more pollution created artificially. The layers which purifies the harming uv rays and others from outer space are getting shreaded by the toxins distributed from human activities. The earth is suffering and so we are “Preserve the Nature, Reduce the Global warming”

                                        Sonam Sherpa              


Article by https://www.facebook.com/sonamsherpa.climatecampaigner

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“Human being proud with tourism, must make sustainable naturalism”

We live in a world where over-tourism has become a real problem, animals are kept in captivity for peoples’ amusement, and nature is deliberately destructed and the tourism industry feeds off this. The industry takes in so many tourists in one place that the locals get driven out of their homes, prices rise to a level where the inhabitants no longer can afford to live in their own home town with local wages. Further, it drives that many tourists to one place at the same time that there surges a need to build more hotels to house them all.
Often this is done by foreign investors and only a small part of the income remains locally. They cut down trees and clean large areas of land to build more luxury resorts and golf fields. As the definition of tourists visiting from one place to another to a certain destination. Tourists come to explore many subjects as some travel for research and some travel for fun, new places enjoy the moment and many reasons and tourist guides have to job to fulfill it. 



Tourists and entire people should be aware and keep the industry smoothly without any harm to nature and without illegal activities. As some people come from different place to visit they neglect and throw litters and wastes which is prohibited for the environment. As travelers, we need to remember that we are visitors. When we start thinking about the consequences of our actions when we travel, then we are traveling responsibly and then we can make a difference. The locals also have the responsibility to serve the guests and teach them how things must be done in the place. The global crisis Global Warming/Climate Change’s effect increases while touring the tourists the gases from the vehicles should be managed every tourist must know about the importance of plants in the part of nature and should have a program for a plantation as a relaxation stress relief. As the crisis does no different tourism is also getting affected so every people related to it must know their own responsibility preserving nature together with tourism. Healthy tourism with naturalism!!



Article by https://www.facebook.com/sonamsherpa.climatecampaigner
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Nepal Sets ‘Guinness World Record’ For Mt Everest Clean-up Drive!

 

 

 

Nepal has achieved a new Guinness World Record of ‘The Largest Clean-up of Mount Everest’ for successfully conducting a cleaning campaign on the world’s highest mountain. For the first time in the history of Everest climbing, Nepal conducted the mega Everest Clean-up Drive for over a month in the last spring season. In coordination with the government and private agencies, the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation conducted the cleaning campaign on the mountain from April 14 – May 29, 2019.Nepal Guinness World Recor Mt Everest Clean-up Twelve trained Sherpa climbers, including ice-fall doctors, collected approximately 10,386 kg of garbage from the mountain. Of the total trash collected, 5,049 kg were recycled (including glass, plastic bottles, and aluminum cans), but the remaining non-recyclable material had to be incinerated or sent to landfill.


Around 5,700 kg of the total litter was collected from base camp, high camps, old Khumbu Icefall route, and other settlements of the mountain. “The largest clean-up of Mt. Everest saw 10,386 kg of garbage collection from the mountain by 12 Sherpas between 14 April to 29 May 2019,” read the GWR certificate. “The most common types of litter retrieved were wrappers, thermo-insulation linings and broken glass,” informed Meera Acharya, Spokesperson at the Department of Tourism (DoT). According to DoT, the Nepali Government spent NPR 27 million for the cleaning program. Apart from the garbage, the Sherpas also retrieved four bodies of climbers who had died while climbing Mt. Everest.

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Long-haul Transport to remain suspended till August 17

 

KATHMANDU: The government of Nepal has decided to put offAugust 17 resumptions of all flights till the end of August.

The cabinet meeting held on Monday decided that domestic and international flights, long-haul transportation service, and other services that were earlier scheduled to resume on August 17 will remain suspended till August 31.

The Crisis Management Centre (CMC) had forwarded its recommendation to the government to postpone the resumption of operations of the aforementioned services.

The decision was taken in view of the steady rise in the number of Covid-19 cases after the easing of the lockdown, a source said.

It has also been decided that movement across border crossing points will be further tightened given the steady rise in the number of infections across the border


sources: Himalayan Times

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The Hallucinating wild honey of Nepal

The Hallucinating Honey that we have heard of is the most sought after Himalayan honey in the world. This honey is so powerful that ingesting only a few drops of it can cause immediate psychedelic effects. Apis Laborisa, fondly known as the Himalayan cliff bee, is an indigenous species of gigantic honeybee that collects nectar from the Rhododendron pollen. To get maximum sunlight and to make them less vulnerable to predatory attacks, these giant honeybees make their nesting sites on the steep and inaccessible cliffs, close to the rivers. Honey hunting is a part of an age-old tradition much revered among the male members of the Gurung community, an ethnic community of Nepal, who use one of the oldest methods of harvesting honey in the world twice a year – once in spring (March/April) and autumn  (October/November).  But it is mostly the Gurungs from Kaski district that participate in this half-yearly ritual with much fervor and preparation. Every year, the local Shaman marks an auspicious day for harvesting honey, and a day prior to honey hunting, chicken is sacrificed as a part of a shamanic ritual they believe will protect them from any danger and injury. Honey hunting is a risky tradition and some hunters pay the price of their life while climbing the massive steep cliffs every year. But in spite of this, this works as a strong binding force amongst the community members in that the cliffs are named after honey hunters who had fallen off them. The men have their peculiar traditional equipment which is carved out of bamboo trees to make prang (ladder made from bamboo to scale the enormous cliffs), tango (strong bamboo stick with a sickle at the end to axe thick honeycombs), which (a bamboo fiber rope that is stuck to the ladder and pulled by men on the ground to maneuver the ladder) and korko/tokari (around bamboo basket that typically holds up to 20 liters of honey). 





The men have to walk for a few hours from their villages to reach the bottom of the cliffs. Before they start the hunt, a few men gather around to conduct a ceremony with flowers, rice, and incense to seek the permission of Thane Mane (local cliff God) to climb the cliff and pray for a safe and successful hunt.  The hunters first begin by lighting a fire and burning some local leaves under the cliffs to transfer the smoke to beehives. This makes honeybees leave their enormous bee combs. They silently tread on the bamboo ladder and with the help of tango, drop the exposed honeycomb into the bamboo basket. One can often see swollen hands and feet of the hunters as they are repeatedly stung by the honeybees. It is said that Apis Laborisa is so big and powerful that it can sting through modern suits too. But the locals believe that if the honeybee stings, the honey is potent. Once the hunting ritual is complete, the intoxicating honey is shared by all community members. They use it in their tea but not more than a spoonful of it, as this wild honey is known to have intoxicating properties. High nutrition and medicinal properties make it much coveted and it is due to this reason that this wild honey is often exported to countries such as Japan and Korea. The rapid rise of honey business has impacted not only the lives of the local people but has also affected the flora and fauna of the region. One has to be very careful about this tradition dying up fast. Several bee cliffs have been transferred to the government departments in the past and that has had a negative impact on the local population. On the other hand, the tourists also add up to the misery of the indigenous population in this area. Foreigners and government officials are spotted with modern, sophisticated equipment and tools, exploiting bee combs. This has resulted in a decreased population of the giant Apis Laborisa.

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Wild Honey Hunting in Nepal Photo Features



With at least five different species, Nepal is rich in honeybee diversity. Honey hunters of Nepal risk their life and limbs to collect honey of wild honey bees from their nests located high up on craggy cliffs. For the aboriginal tribes involved in honey hunting, it is a vocation that is ancient in origin.




















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Two sherpa became an example during lock down








The Sherpas that have adorned the Himalayas of Nepal are a part of a very small ethnic group whose primary income is now generated through trekking and mountaineering activities. Every season, they look forward to welcoming tourists/explorers/researchers/travelers into their humble yet fascinatingly enchanting world of indigenous culture and mountains. Most of the Sherpas are employed as porters, cooks and guides for various trekking and mountaineering agencies, where they risk their lives at every step that they take on the treacherous trail in order to earn some money to support their families and their community. Had it not been for these brave Sherpas, the world would never have had the privilege to stand atop the world's highest mountain. Nepal was all geared up for her Visit Nepal Year 2020 campaign until the world shut down unexpectedly due to Covid-19.




 Due to no tourism this year, Sherpas are left with no work. The porters - who are the worst affected - may not be able to feed their families sufficiently. During the lockdown in Nepal two Sherpa guide became an example of so many people. Trekking and Mountaineering Guide 
Chhiring dorjee Sherpa and Nima tenji lama Sherpa started up a social work to paint old stone Mani in Tumbuk, Salabesi and Taktor.” We became jobless after covid 19 and we discuss to do something during this lockdown” chhiring dorjee said. 
“We found so many Mani scripts were covered by soil and people were putting their foot step on the Mani, we found those activities so unusual” Nima added. After few hours discussion Nima and chhiring finalized to paint Mani during their free time. 

They co ordinate with local people to clean the Mani also they involved in other social activities with local, both of them are happy to complete the project, “we are happy and blessed to paint those Mani” Chhiring added. “At least tourist will take a photograph, Local can notice there is mani they need to preserve, Next generation will learn and copy the activities” Nima was sharing his happiness with us. Both thanked to all supporters, well wishers and locals.















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Mingma Gyalje Sherpa climbed Gasherbrum II without supplemental oxygen



An international mountain climbers including Vernon Edward Tejas, Naoki Ishikhawa, Hari Thomas Mix, Tamting Sherpa, Thundu Sherpa, Mingma Tenzi Sherpa, Kami Temba Sherpa and Passang Namgel Sherpa also made it to summit of Gasherbrum II.

Mingma Gyalje Sherpa has successfully climbed the world’s 13th highest mountain in the Karakoram Range last week, becoming the first Nepali climber to make the most ascents of 8,000-metre peaks without using supplemental oxygen.
Mingma Gyalje Sherpa from Rolwaling Valley in Dolakha district stood atop Gasherbrum II (8,035m) on July 25. “This is the 12th eight-thousander that I have climbed without using supplemental oxygen,” Sherpa, who also runs Imagine Nepal Trek and Expedition, told this daily from Skardu in Pakistan. “At least nine members of our team made it to the summit of Gasherbrum II this season,” Sherpa, who soloed on Mt Chobuje (6,685m) via west face in 2015, addedSherpa, who completed 13 of 14 mountains above 8,000m, said that he aims to become the first Nepali mountaineer to climb all eight-thousanders without the aid of .
“I have a plan to complete remaining two mountains – Mt Everest and Mt Shishapangma – without using supplemental oxygen by next year,” Sherpa, an IFMGA/UIAGM certified guide, shared. Sherpa, however, climbed Mt Everest for the fifth time – 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2016 – but he had used bottled oxygen while standing atop the world’s highest peak.
The two-time K2 summiteer also said that he would also attempt to complete all the Seven Summits, the highest peaks of each of the world’s continents next year. Sherpa is also the first summiteer on Mt Cheki-Go (6,257m), Mt Bamongo (6,400m) and Mt Chobuje (6,685m) via west.
MINGMA GYALJE’S SUMMIT RECORD:
Mt Everest – 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2016
K2 – 2014 and 2017
Kanchenjunga – 2013
Lhotse – 2018
Makalu – 2017
Cho Oyu – 2008
Dhaulagiri – 2017
Manaslu – 2009, 2011, 2016 and 2018
Nanga Parbat – 2017
Annapurna – 2015
Gasherbrum I – 2016 
Broad Peak – 2018
Gasherbrum II – 2019 
Note: News published on Himalayan times by this evening 
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Nims set new world record climbing 11 mountains within 4 months


Nirmal"nims Purja former uk special force set new world record climbing  11 mountains in 4 months those mountains above 8000m know mountains.

He succeeded in the second phase of his ambition to speed climb the world's 14 highest mountains in just seven month.

NIMS Summit Success

Board peak - july 26
MT K2 - july 24
Gasherbrum II-July 18
Gasherbrum I- July 15
Nanga Parbat- July 03
Mt Makalu - May 24
Mt Everest - May 22
Mt Lhotse - May 22
Mt Kanchenjunga - May 15
Mt Dhaulagiri - May 12
Mt Annapurna - April 23
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Purja climbed Broad peak 11th of 14 mountains early this morning, completing the second phase of his mission under the project possible"
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