Fatigues

A naughty boy is punished. He had to stand all day carrying that heavy pole laden with tyres and presumably a bag full of rocks. Seems a bit of an odd punishment for a Nepali - they'd probably suffer more if you told them to lie in the sun all day drinking Champagne and having their feet massaged.

“I expected the Orientals to be inscrutable; I just hadn’t expected them to be inscrutable to my face.”

April 25th 2006
Standing at 5000m near the head of the Gokyo valley, I turned to our guide, Man Magar, and said "Man, I've visited fifty two countries in my life and I've never seen anything like this." We were braced against the wind perched on the moraine at the aptly named "Scoundrel's viewpoint", so called because it affords an excellent view of Everest and Nuptse without the need to climb any of the steep su ... read more

Asia » Nepal

In 1951, the Nepalese monarch ended the century-old system of rule by hereditary premiers and instituted a cabinet system of government. Reforms in 1990 established a multiparty democracy within the framework of a constitutional monarchy. A Maoist in... ... read more

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