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    Trekbooking.com concept and content Create an independent online trek search engine and trekking agency aggregator at www.trekbooking.com‚ allowing for easy identification of suitable treks and booking of preferred trekking agents in Nepal. Www.trekbooking.com will deliver the following value to its end-customers: * competitively priced treks (enabled by having multiple agencies on the portal) * easy identification of a suitable trek and booking of preferred trekking agent (enabled by

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    famous by helping his son become the youngest person to climb the mountain. Besides the physical danger‚ Peak sees the selfish behavior of some climbers‚ who will ignore a person who needs help‚ in their zeal to climb the mountain. Peak also meets a Sherpa boy his age and learns about their lives on the mountain. As Peak tries to fulfill his father’s goal‚ he also begins to discover things about himself. (Round Character) Secondary Character: Josh Wood‚ Peak’s father‚ "a rock rat"‚ was not there

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    Lopsang was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineering guide‚ climber and porter. He was a Sherpa on the 1996 Everest expedition‚ and was part of Scott Fischer’s team. Lopsang has plenty of experience on mountain climbing‚ considering that he has summited Everest four times. During the Everest climb in 1996‚ Lopsang

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    Retrieved September 2012. From http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6726ef4e-805a-11df-8b9e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz27oHUt5Dx Kirkpatrick‚ Dave. August 21‚ 2012. Social Media Marketing: Data mining Twitter for trends‚ sentiment and influencers. Marketing Sherpa Blog. Retrieved September 2012. From http://sherpablog.marketingsherpa.com/social-networking-evangelism-community/twitter-data-mining/. 2012 Twitter Privacy Policy. Twitter/Twitter Privacy Policy. Retreived September 2012. From https://twitter.com/privacy

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    Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer Everest deals with trespassers harshly: the dead vanish beneath the snows. While the living struggle to explain what happened. And why. A survivor of the mountain’s worst disaster examines the business of Mount Everest and the steep price of ambition. Into Thin Air Straddling the top of the world‚ one foot in Tibet and the other in Nepal‚ I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask‚ hunched a shoulder against the wind‚ and stared absently at the vast sweep of earth below

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    Ever since 1984‚ commercial expeditions have been a popular way for amateur climbers to conquer Mount Everest. Commercial guiding expeditions have led to many deaths and have led to pollution of the mountain. In this essay I will discuss a brief history of Mount Everest‚ what commercial guiding is‚ how commercial guiding started and how it is affecting Mount Everest. Sources say that Nepal and China should limit the number of guide companies on Everest and make efforts to clean the mountain and its

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    National Hero’s Of Nepal SUYESH JOSHI CLASS 5 SECTION A Gautam Buddha [pic] He was born in the year of 563 BC .He was born in lumbini. His father name was Sudhodhana and his mother name was Mayadevi. Siddhartha was the family name. As the boy reached the age of 16‚ his father arranged his marriage to Yaśodharā

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    Parable of Sadhu

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    nursing assistance; in their best individualist attempt‚ they each and every one contributed to their convenience (enough not to become an inconvenience). The New Zealander offered his hand by bringing him down to their attention of the porters and Sherpa guides while Bowen took a carotid pulse and found out he (sadhu) was still alive. Stephen and the four Swiss proceeded by offering

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    1.2 Background of the study area Sunsari Morang Irrigation System (SMIS) is one of the largest irrigation project in Nepal which is aimed to irrigate 68000 ha of Sunsari and Morang district located in Eastern Terai area in Nepal. Under bi-lateral agreement between Nepal and India in 1954‚ the system was designed and constructed by Government of India from 1964 to 1973 was handed over to Nepal in 1975 after two years of trial operation(Paudel‚ 2010). The water is withdrawn through a side intake from

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    oxygen‚ the climbers were not able to think at their full mental capacity. Therefore many simple mistakes were made that should not have been. High altitude cerebral edema and high altitude pulmonary edema caused problems with some of the climbers and Sherpas. Beck Weather’s vision was reduced to near blindness by the altitude as he climbed higher and higher. The temperature and the weather were also two large factors in the disaster. Had there not been the storm on the day all the teams made their attempts

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