To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the triumph f Mount Everest, the Himalayan trust Advisory committee takes pride in presenting this volume, a tribute to Sir Edmund Hillary from the Sherpa people o
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If all the books on mountains were stacked on top of another, they would probably rival the heights of the peaks. Countless volumes on climbers and mountaineers are available in several languages. But
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Their achievement provided one answer to the many questions about high-altitude survival which had been asked from the beginning of the century. Their climb was the culmination
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He Worked in a half light, huge and cheerful, his movement not so much graceful as unshakably assured, his energy almost demonic. He had a tremendous, bursting, elemental infectious, glorious vitality
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This stunning book will show you places you never dreamed still existed. Nepal is the most mountainous country on earth and hides many secrets in a maze of remote valleys where small communities have
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This books presents the musical life of the Newar town of Kirtipur, Nepal.
Newar musical traditions are prominent in the local musical life, and this heritage is presented in some
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This book describes in detail the history of urbanization of Pokhara town, which is the fastest growing and one of the best-known towns in Nepal. The extraordinary history of growth and change over th
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Barbara Adams arrived in Nepal in 1961. She has somehow been both a total participator in, and a detached observer of, the Nepali cultural, political and developmental scene. Those who missed her earl
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"This book identifies one reason- the failure to consider sociocultural information in planning health care - for the enormous and chronic gap between policy- making and programme impl
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In the early years of the 20th century when every country, including Japan, was looking to the west for advanced studies and training in modern technology, Nepal looked to the east, Japan, for its lea
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This is the first published anthropological monograph on a Kiranti mythology in its social and historical context. Based on in-depth fieldwork in the Arun Valley (in the Makalu-Barun area) the study e
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