Khumbu

Mountains and Yaks

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November 10th 2009
The Solukhumbu of Nepal is a place of incredible, daunting beauty, with fertile, glacier-fed river bottomed pine forest-filled valleys surrounded by mammoth snow-shouldered bastions of stark Himalayan rock. I spent eleven days sharing this landscape with yaks, tourists, Tibetan Buddhist monks, Mount Everest, and the famous Sherpa people, and now I can share a little bit of the experience with you ... read more

Asia » Nepal » Tengboche

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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