Perfect weather for mountain flight - Cory & Renan is heading to climb Mt. Tawoche before Khumbu Climbing School Program

The Everest Experience Flight is the awe-inspiring Mt. Everest, in its entire majestic splendor, is at your disposal on this spectacular "Everest Experience" flight. On this flight, we fly past other high peaks like Dorje - Lakpa, Chhoba - Bhamare, Gauri - Shankar, Cho-Oyu, Pumori, Nuptse, Lhotse, and Amadablam. This is the closet and highest view of Mt. Everest you can ever hope to see in your lifetime. Do not miss it! As you'll find yourself saying, " I did not climb Mt. Everest but I touched it with my heart".

Mt. Everest & Mt. Makalu. Photo by Jiban Ghimire

Cory Richards -Mt. Dorjee Lakpa
http://verticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2010/01/nepal-expedition-2k10-dispatch-1.html

Namaste !!

Seasons Greeting
and
Best Wishes for
a
Happy New Year 2010

Jiban Ghimire & Family

TAAN, MEDEP organise trekking guide training in Chautara

A total of 69 participants from Kavre, Ramechhap, Sindhupalchowk, Dolakha, Nuwakot and Rasuwa attended the training. Classes were conducted on History, Culture, People & Religion; Basic Tourism & Tourism Management, Trekking & Mountaineering Management; Mountain Sickness and HIV/AIDS; Health& Hygiene and First Aid; Food & Beverage and Hospitality Management; Eco-Tourism; Protected areas and Conservation; Geography, Map Reading and Flora & Fauna; and Communicative English Language.

Chewang Nema Sherpa, Gopal Magar & I are very pleased to teach about expedition management with orientation class. Thank you for inviting us. We had great time to met new faces.

Melting Himalayan glaciers threaten lives in Asia

Claire Cozens/AFP
KATHMANDU: More than a billion people in Asia depend on Himalayan glaciers for water, but experts say they are melting at an alarming rate, threatening to bring drought to large swathes of the continent.

Glaciers in the Himalayas provide headwaters for Asia's nine largest rivers, lifelines for the 1.3 billion people who live downstream. But temperatures in the region have increased by between 0.15 and 0.6 degrees Celsius each decade for the last 30 years, accelerating the rate at which glaciers are shrinking.

As world leaders gather in Copenhagen this month for a crucial climate change summit, campaigners warn that some Himalayan glaciers could disappear within a few decades.

"Scientists predict that most glaciers will be gone in 40 years as a result of climate change," said Prashant Singh of WWF's Climate for Life campaign. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN body on climate change, has warned Himalayan glaciers could "disappear altogether by 2035" and experts say the effects of global warming are already being felt in the region.

In Nepal and Bhutan, the receding glaciers have formed vast lakes that threaten to burst, devastating villages downstream.

A interview with Peter Athans on leadership, setting and achieving goals, and the rewards of philanthropy.

Peter Athans - Legendary Everest Climber

Legendary mountain climber who has summited Mt. Everest seven times. Peter is also a high altitude film maker, working on films for NOVA, National Geographic, and in the featur e film, "Seven Years in Tibet". Peter was awarded the highest honor from the American Alpine Club for the rescue of Beck Weathers in the 1996 Everest tragedy

Dr. Geoff Tabin - "Dr. Extreme"

Dr. Tabin has summited the East Face of Mt. Everest. He was the fourth person to climb the highest peak on each of the earth's seven continents. Geoff, an ophthalmologist, has also been instrumental in establishing clinics to help eradicate blindness in the Himalayas and other third world areas.

Baruntse Summit - 25 November 2009 - Exploradus Baruntse Expedition

A little after noon, all seven of us stood on the summit. My GPS called it 23,535 feet above sea level. It was a crystal clear day, and we could easily pick out 5 of the 6 highest mountains in the world all around us. My only complaint was that the wind was relentless, and although the ambient temperature was perhaps warmer than what might be expected in late November, it was just too cold to hang out on the summit.

Jiban Ghimire
Outfitter in Nepal
www.shangrilatrek.com

Architecture team arrived Kathmandu and working with Almunium, glass and Tress group

We are joined by Jiban, our coordinator in Kathmandu, who has been setting up meetings with manufacturers and suppliers of materials. We work on setting up our game plan for the next few before we retreat to our rooms to unload our gear. This, too, is short lived as after only about a half hour we return to the lobby to have coffee and meet with two of our material suppliers and fabricators. Tec is our man in charge of fabricating the trusses. We hope to get one full-size truss made while we are in Nepal. Mingma is our contact for aluminum storefronts. Both have had experience with transporting and installing materials in the Khumbu. Much of our discussion is about the minute specifics of materials and member sizing, as well as the capacity and history of transporting materials to the (remote) Khumbu.
http://http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=6354

Secrets of Shangri-La: Quest for Sacred Caves

Secrets of Shangri-La: Quest for Sacred Caves

premieres Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Thanks a million for tuning in,

Pete Athans & Liesl Clark

Sky Door Films
http://www.pbs.org/secretsofshangrila/

Nepal Listed One Of Top 10 Travel Destinations In 2010

Nepal has found its way into the list of top ten travel destinations in 2010 in the world. The Lonely Planet "Best in Travel 2010" has listed Nepal, along with El Salvador, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Morocco, New Zealand, Portugal, Suriname and the United States, as one of the top ten travel destinations, a statement from Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) said.

Global Warming: Nepali Cabinet To Meet On Everest
KATMANDU, Nepal — Nepal's Cabinet will hold a meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the threat from global warming, which is causing glaciers to melt in the Himalayas, an official said Monday.
http://www.nepaltravelportal.com/first_page/display_detail_news.php?id=101